Introduction to Power Searching Workshop: 3. Discovery Guidelines

Know what  PART of the Academic Conversation you want to identify.

• Which Disciplines?
• Limits: Year range? Language? Narrower or Broader Aspects of the topic? Population? Methodology? Venue? Sector?

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"Right Tool for the Right Job"  : Know which tool has the capacity to answer your inquiry's parameters

• All Library Discovery Tools have strengths and weaknesses
• Every inquiry does not require the same search tool. 

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 "Know what is under your cursor"

What tool are you using? e.g. which Bibliographic Index and why ?

What is the editorial bias of this particular Discovery Tool? Inclusion rule?  Search Syntax? Quality criteria? 

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