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3 using the Milner Catalog

4 finding articles

5 evaluating sources

6 citing articles

7 using Search It

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The Magic of Indexing The parts of each record or citation in an index or database are searchable. These parts are called fields. When you search by a field, the computer will "look" only in that field when it looks through all the records in the database. It will try to match your search term.

For example, an
Author Search looks only in the author field -->
Title Search looks only in the title field -->
Subject Search looks only in the subject heading field -->
Date Search looks only in the date field -->
But . . . a Keyword Search looks for items anywhere in the record. It is the broadest search.

 

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Original I-Search ©2005 by Illinois State University's Milner Library. I-Search is based upon Searchpath
© by the Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University which incorporates material from TILT, a tutorial developed by the Digital Information Literacy Office for the University of Texas System Digital Library, ©1998-2004. This material may be reproduced, distributed, or incorporated only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Searchpath Open Publication License.