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Keywords
Keywords are significant words that appear anywhere in the bibliographic record for an item. Selecting terms for a "keyword search" can be challenging. Good choices for keyword searches are the topic words or synonyms of the topic, major elements of the topic and can be combined using in a search query using boolean terms.
Source: Elmer E. Rasmuson Library
Keywords Searching
A search made up of keywords and/or boolean terms. When used in context of searching, the researcher chooses keywords rather than using the controlled vocabulary of the system. Often referred to as a natural language search or free-text searching.
Source: Elmer E. Rasmuson Library
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