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Main Contents Page
Before you start
STEP 1: STARTING out
STEP 2: FINDING
Searching techniques:
- Boolean Logic
- Truncation/wildcards
- Phrase searching
Information finding tools:
- OPAC
- Webbridge
- Databases (incl CD Roms)
- Internet
- Dewey (DDC)
Information sources:
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopaedias
- Atlases
- Almanacs & yearbooks
- Books
- Periodicals/Journals
- Newspapers
- Audio-visual
- Internet
- Grey literature
- Broadcast media
- Conference proceedings
- Maps
- Government publications
- Standards
- Museums
- Archives
- Quiz
STEP 3: EVALUATE
STEP 4: Legal and ethical USE
STEP 5: COMMUNICATE
STEP 6: SUBJECT SPECIFIC
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Remember that some material will be available in printed format as well
as in electronic format, e.g.
- printed dictionaries and online dictionaries
- printed encyclopaedias and online encyclopaedias
- printed books and online books.
- printed newspapers and online newspapers
- etc., etc.
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