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Subject Headings

• Education – ERIC

• Psychology– PsycINFO

• Leadership/managementorganizational behavior– ABI/Inform– Business Source Complete

Databases and Disciplinary Perspectives

• Health care– Medline– CINAHL

• Speech Language Pathology– Linguistics and

Language Behavior• Computer Science

– ACM– IEEE– Science Direct

• Clothing:– Dress– Raiment– Garb– Attire– Garment– Apparel– Clothes – Outfit

Controlled Vocabulary:- Used to look for “like” terms

• Minority groups:– African Americans– Blacks– Latinos– Hispanics– Mexicans– Puerto Ricans– Native Americans– Asians– Chinese– Indians– Etc.

Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary:- Scope Notes

• 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”.

• Indians– Native Americans?– People from India?

• Mercury– God?– Metal?– Car?– Planet?

Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary:- Precise results

Keyword Searching Using Boolean Operators

Descriptor Searching

“We want to look for concepts, but we are forced to search for words” (Walker & Janes as cited in Bell, 2011)– Pros and cons of Twitter– Empirical research articles on reading

comprehension– Trends and issues in globalization

Controlled Vocabulary

• first grade• inclusion• math• ESOL or TESOL

• unemployment

Keyword Subject Heading

• Grade 1• inclusive schools• mathematics• English (Second

Language)• retrenchment

• 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

Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary:- Helps broaden understanding of an unfamiliar topic

Controlled vocabulary in different databases for the same concept: Autism

Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary:- Precise results

Others Use “Autistic Disorder”

Medline

CINAHL

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