learning skills 7 skills in information retrieval slides

Learning OutcomesLearning Outcomes

Identify the various information sources i.e. OPAC, electronic databases and Internet.

OPACOPAC OPAC or Online Public Access Catalogue

– an electronic or online catalogue for materials available in a library (printed, audio-video, etc.)

Search strategies: Author Title Subject Keyword

Electronic DatabasesElectronic Databases Bibliographic databases

Provide basic bibliographic information or citations of items (author, title, year of publication, publishers, abstracts, descriptions of items, etc.)

Full-text databases Provide basic bibliographic information

or citations and full-text of the items

Searching on the InternetSearching on the Internet Internet search tools

Search engines – using single search engine

Meta search engines – using many single search engines

Subject directories – websites that are organised into a hierarchy of subject categories

Databases – free databases

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