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Subject Headings. Databases and Disciplinary Perspectives. Education ERIC Psychology PsycINFO Leadership/management organizational behavior ABI/Inform Business Source Complete. Health care Medline CINAHL Speech Language Pathology Linguistics and Language Behavior Computer Science

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  1. Subject Headings

  2. Databases and Disciplinary Perspectives • Education • ERIC • Psychology • PsycINFO • Leadership/managementorganizational behavior • ABI/Inform • Business Source Complete • Health care • Medline • CINAHL • Speech Language Pathology • Linguistics and Language Behavior • Computer Science • ACM • IEEE • Science Direct

  3. Controlled Vocabulary:- Used to look for “like” terms • Clothing: • Dress • Raiment • Garb • Attire • Garment • Apparel • Clothes • Outfit

  4. Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary:- Scope Notes • Minority groups: • African Americans • Blacks • Latinos • Hispanics • Mexicans • Puerto Ricans • Native Americans • Asians • Chinese • Indians • Etc. • Scope note: • “subgroups within a larger society that are distinguished from the majority and each other by race, national heritage, or sometimes by religious or cultural affiliation”.

  5. Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary:- Precise results • Indians • Native Americans? • People from India? • Mercury • God? • Metal? • Car? • Planet?

  6. Keyword Searching Using Boolean Operators

  7. Descriptor Searching

  8. Controlled Vocabulary “We want to look for concepts, but we are forced to search for words” (Walker & Janesas cited in Bell, 2011) • Pros and cons of Twitter • Empirical research articles on reading comprehension • Trends and issues in globalization

  9. Grade 1 inclusive schools mathematics English (Second Language) retrenchment Keyword Subject Heading • first grade • inclusion • math • ESOL or TESOL • unemployment

  10. Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary:- Helps broaden understanding of an unfamiliar topic • Cancer --- MeSH heading: neoplasms • SCOPE:New abnormal growth of tissue. Malignant neoplasms show a greater degree of anaplasia and have the properties of invasion and metastasis, compared to benign neoplasms. • Used for: neoplasms, tumors, benign neoplasms, cancers

  11. Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary:- Precise results Controlled vocabulary in different databases for the same concept: Autism

  12. Others Use “Autistic Disorder” Medline CINAHL

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