{"id":109,"date":"2017-03-23T07:34:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T07:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ueflibraryscifor.wordpress.com\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2024-09-04T15:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:35:35","slug":"searching-strategies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/queries\/searching-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Queries for different purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In different situations, you need a different approach to your searches and queries. You can also start from simple and then move on to more rigorous searches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Try individual words<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try simple search phrases: 1-2 AND operations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add AND-operations if needed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collect more possible keywords<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try a more comprehensive search with alternative words connected with OR-operators<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remember the importance of search fields, truncation, and phrases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The search result should be examined (sorted by) relevancy, especially at the beginning. This allows you to quickly find some good hits. The result can also be arranged according to the date of publication, the latest first, if it is necessary to get very recent publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often, the number of results and relevancy of articles found, are opposite outcomes to each other. The appropriate combination of the two is sought by modifying the search phrases by certain means. More about these are told in the section <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/queries\/refining-the-query\/\"><em>Refining the query<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Small relevant result set<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, if you want to have a <strong>result list few in number, but precise in topic<\/strong> you might try to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) focus your search terms on the <strong>title field only<\/strong>. Usually, if a term occurs in a title, one might expect it to be a key concept in a text too.<br>2) look through only the latest results by <strong>sorting: \u2018Date, descending\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Examples of publication titles:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2017\/04\/sftitleonly.png\" alt=\"The cover of the book: Carbon inventory methods. The cover of the book: Plant biochemistry. The cover of the book: Introduction to stochastic processes with r.\" class=\"wp-image-217\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFtitleonly2.png\" alt=\"A screen capture of the beginning of an online article. The title of the article is: Carbon inventory methods and carbon mitigation potentials of forests in Europe: a short review of recent progress. The terms carbon and inventory and methods are highlighted with yellow colour.\" class=\"wp-image-729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFtitleonly2.png 712w, https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFtitleonly2-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFtitleonly2-623x380.png 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A lot of potential results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need <strong>an extensive result<\/strong> of \u201call that is available\u201d about the topic, you must<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) think <strong>different expressions and alternatives<\/strong> of the key concepts and<br>2) combine them to your query with the <strong>OR-operator.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFsyst.jpg\" alt=\"A screen capture of a search history in a database. The query: (superhydrophobic* or hydrophobic* or self-cleaning surfaces\u201d and (coating or film or sheet or membrane) and glass and (silic* or nano*), 551 document results.\" class=\"wp-image-737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFsyst.jpg 902w, https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFsyst-300x51.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFsyst-768x129.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Testing the topic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If your search topic is still somewhat <strong>unclear<\/strong> or you know that the topic is <strong>\u201crare\u201d<\/strong>, i.e. you won\u2019t expect to find lots of results, you can <strong>search with one or two terms only <\/strong>in order to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) see the <strong>frequency of the term<\/strong> in a database: if it\u2019s infrequent, there is no need to add any limiting terms to the query.<br>2)<strong> browse the results<\/strong> to get an idea what there is available and how you could possibly refine the query.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"926\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFtesting.jpg\" alt=\"A screen capture of a search history in a database. The first query: &quot;superhydrophobic glass&quot;, 38 document results. The second query: superhydrophobic AND glass AND (coating OR film), 691 document results. The third query: superhydrophobic  AND (coating OR film) AND glass, where the term glass is searched from the keywords-field, 342 document results.\" class=\"wp-image-733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFtesting.jpg 926w, https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFtesting-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/SFtesting-768x203.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Next page: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/searching-information-of-a-different-type\/\">Searching information of a different type<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In different situations, you need a different approach to your searches and queries. You can also start from simple and then move on to more rigorous searches. The search result should be examined (sorted by) relevancy, especially at the beginning. This allows you to quickly find some good hits. 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