Test Your Database Skills
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Test your knowledge of searching the databases
Questions and Answers
- 1.If you wanted to find research about either Australia or New Zealand which of the following search queries would be best?
- A.
Australia AND New Zealand
- B.
Australia OR New Zealand
- C.
Australia NOT New Zealand
- 2.If you wanted to find out about university students chocolate consumption which of the following search queries would be best?
- A.
Chocolate AND students
- B.
Chocolate OR students
- C.
Chocolate NOT students
- 3.
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If you wanted to find results about dogs but not dachshunds which of the following search queries would be best?- A.
Dogs AND dachshunds
- B.
Dogs NOT dachshunds
- C.
Dogs OR dachshunds
- 4.If you type child* into a search query box, what words are most likely to be present in your search results?
- A.
Just the word child
- B.
Chile, chilli,
- C.
Child, children children's, childless
- 5.Which of the following would reduce the number of results retrieved in a database search? (May be more than one answer)
- A.
Add in another term and combine with OR
- B.
Add in another term and combine with AND
- C.
Restrict your search to the titles of books, chapters or articles only
- D.
Search using subject headings
- 6.Which of the following would extend your search to include more results? (May be more than one answer)
- A.
Try another database
- B.
Add in synonyms for your search terms and combine with OR
- C.
Add in additional terms and combine with AND
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