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FSA 340: Virtual Handout

Survival Skills: Search Strategies

Survival Skills: Search Strategy Activity

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Use ONESearch (linked below) or one of the other databases you tried before!

Round 1: Pick 2 of the terms you brainstormed and try out the following (use the boxes and drop down menus... you can find it in the Advanced Search in ONESearch): 

  • Combine the words using “AND"
  • Combine the words using “Or”​
  • Combine the words using “Not”

Round 2: Try searching for the following exactly as pictured with/without quotation marks:

  • disability exclusion
  • "disability exclusion"

Round 3: Browse around and click on the title of a couple of interesting articles. Take a look at the list of "subjects" as you look.

  • Are there any new terms you didn't think about?
  • What happens when you click on one of the subjects?