| 2- CHOOSING A TOPIC | MODULE CONTENTS |
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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. |
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| 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 (c) UNBLILT material 2003-2004 by the University of New Brunswick Libraries, Instruction Services Group. UNBLILT incorporates material from Searchpath, a tutorial developed by Western Michigan University 2001-2002, and from TILT, a tutorial developed by the Digital Information Literacy Office for the University of Texas System Digital Library 1998-2002. This material may be reproduced, distributed, or incorporated only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the UNBLILT, Searchpath, and TILT Open Publication Licenses.