The 3M Search Strategy

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• The 3M Search Strategy
• a simple way to help students prepare to use
  BOOLEAN logic to search
• the WebCat
• the internet

• Make a simple table with three columns and column
  titles
• MUST
• MIGHT
• MUST NOT

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The 3M Search Strategy
List what search terms you know must be there

• List what search terms you think might be there

List what search terms you know must not be there
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The 3M Search Strategy allows you to build a
search string
You will search these terms using AND
You can subtract these terms with NOT
You can add these words with OR
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The 3M Search Strategy allows you to build a
search string
You want to search for sites of maps of China.
You will search these terms using AND
Search China AND maps
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BOOLEAN SEARCH AND
You want to search for sites of maps of China.
Search China AND maps
Maps (MUST)
China (MUST)
Results You will get only the light green sites
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The 3M Search Strategy allows you to build a
search string
You want to search for sites about First Nations.
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You will search these terms using OR
Search First Nations OR aboriginal
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BOOLEAN SEARCH OR
You want to search for sites about First Nations.
Search First Nations OR aboriginal
First Nations (MUST)
Aboriginal (MIGHT)
Results You will get all the green sites
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The 3M Search Strategy allows you to build a
search string
You want to search for sites about China.
You will search these terms using NOT
Search China NOT dishes
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BOOLEAN SEARCH NOT
You want to search for sites about China. Search
China NOT dishes
dishes (NOT)
China (MUST)
Results You will get only the green sites
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The 3M Search Strategy allows you to build a more
complex search string
You want to search for sites about First Nations
education in British Columbia.
Search First Nations AND education AND
British Columbia
You will search these terms using AND
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BOOLEAN SEARCH ANDAND
You want to search for sites about First Nations
education in British Columbia. Enter search
terms First Nations AND education AND British
Columbia
Education (MUST)
First Nations (MUST)
British Columbia (MUST)
Results You will get all the inner green sites
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The 3M Search Strategy allows you to build a
search string to find adjacent terms
You want to search for sites about The Gold
Rush.
You will keep these terms adjacent by putting
them in quotation marks
Search Gold Rush
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BOOLEAN SEARCH adjacent terms
You want to search for sites about the Gold
Rush. Enter search terms Gold Rush (in
quotation marks) to find only those sites where
the words are adjacent
Gold
Rush
Sites with gold and rush
Results You will get all the inner green sites
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The 3M Search Strategy allows you to conduct
searches using truncated search terms, the lowest
common word roots
You want to find sites about the Buddhist faith.
Will you search Buddha OR Buddhism
OR Buddhist ? Or
You can reduce or truncate these search terms
using the
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BOOLEAN SEARCH truncated terms
You want to search for sites about Buddhism.
Search the truncated form Buddh to find all of
the sites that apply to your area of study
Buddh(a)
Buddh(ism)
Buddh(ist)
Results You will get all these sites