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Articles provide information about a well-defined topic<\/strong> and generally assume that the reader already has the basic knowledge<\/strong> about the subject. Therefore, when searching for articles,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Books are useful sources when you want an overall picture of a topic<\/strong>: basics, concepts, history and the latest development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many books cover an area of wide range – then the title of a book is general. The description of a book in a library database can be quite brief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, looking for a book in a library database, it is wise to<\/p>\n\n\n\n Example: you are searching for ‘Lambert conformal conic’ which is a type of a map projection. Use the larger topic when the specific term doesn’t give any results:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The instructions above refer to a searching from reference and library databases. Both articles and books can also be searched across the whole text of the publication. Then every single word within the text is searchable. So the possibility of a search term to match the words in the text is high, especially when the term is quite common. This will lead to high number of irrelevant results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, it is wise to use several AND-operations<\/strong> and even phrases<\/strong> in queries. Specific search terms<\/strong> work fine, but general terms, like ‘management’ or ‘ effect’, might cause irrelevant hits. Thus OR-operations can sometimes be useless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Extensive reviews on a very wide and general topic, such as ‘organic chemistry’, are rarely issued as articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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