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Evaluate your search results
Evaluation criteria will help you determine if
you need to modify your search strategy. In the
table below we have provided some evaluation criteria
and useful techniques to help you modify your search
if needed.
| Evaluate results |
Modify Search Strategy |
| Is the information relevant to your topic,
question or purpose? |
Try using
- narrower keywords
- the Boolean Operator ‘AND’
to combine keywords
- synonyms
- a specific-field search e.g. subject search
(use the database Help for details)
- proximity searching to search for words
near each other (use database Help for details)
- a different search tool (e.g. a different
database or catalogue)
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| Are you finding enough information? |
Try using
- broader keywords
- synonyms
- truncation
- keywords (use database Help for details)
- the Boolean Operator ‘OR’
to combine your keywords
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| Did you find too many references? |
Try using
- additional keywords
- the Boolean Operator ‘AND’
to combine keywords narrower keywords
- a phrase search (use database Help for
details)
- a specific-field search e.g. Subject
search (use database Help for details)
- limits e.g. by fulltext, scholarly, date,
article type, language etc (use database
Help for details)
- proximity searching to search for words
near each other (use database Help for details)
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Locating full text
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