43 Thesaurus - Search Tactics (Information Research)
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This article is from the Information Research FAQ, by David Novak david@spireproject.com with numerous contributions by others.
43 Thesaurus - Search Tactics (Information Research)
An improvement on truncation is the opportunity to look directly at a
list of words, either keywords, or descriptors. This allows you to see
the range of spellings before you search. This is also ideal for
searches of company names or proper places so you can select only the
words you are interested in. In a simple way, some library catalogues
present subject searches in this way: a list of subject categories
arranged alphabetically.
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