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5 evaluating sources

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Truncation Truncation is like a wildcard. Added to the stem of a word, it will find that stem plus anything that comes after it. The symbol used to truncate a word depends upon the index, database, or Internet search engine you are using.
psychol?	will return records on psychology, psychological, psychologist. ? is used as the truncation symbol, for example, in the Milner Catalog.
environ*	will return records on environment, environments, environmental. * is used as the truncation symbol in the databases Business Abstracts and Periodical Abstracts.

 

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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.