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Introduction
Overview of Databases
Overview of the Web
Search Strategies
Evaluating Results
Capturing Information
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Truncation |
| Truncation allows you
to search the root form of a word with all its different endings. By truncating a word, you broaden your search and ensure that
you retrieve all items containing a form of the root word. |
| bank* |
will retrieve |
| bank |
bank |
| bank |
banks |
| bank |
banking |
| bank |
bankers |
| bank |
bankruptcy |
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| Databases and Web search engines use different symbols to
truncate. Check HELP for using for the correct truncation
symbol. |
bank |
* |
bank |
! |
bank |
# |
bank |
$ |
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