Pandia Goalgetter Search Tutorial - on search engine field searching 11. Field searching When the search engine robots retrieve information from webpages around the world, they sort the information into various categories or "fields". The main fields that can be accessed in field searching are:
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WHAT IS FIELD SEARCHING? When information is entered into a record's field, some search engines allow you to retrieve it by using the correct field label in combination with your search term(s). Where available, field searching on the Web is a very powerful tool.
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If instead you knew your person had a red tie, blue shirt, and a green beret, you have a better chance of finding the right person. This is field searching.
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The beginning TO end part defines the boundaries of the field.  The CONTAINS part indicates the words or phrases you are searching for in the field.  The only connector allowed in the beginning and end expressions in a field definition is OR.  Examples:
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A word searched for in a search command. Keywords are searched in any order. Use spaces to separate keywords in simple keyword searching. Requiring that a keyword or phrase appear in a specific field of documents retrieved. Most often used to limit to the "Title" field in order to find documents primarily about one or...
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Field Searching-A search that looks for the occurrence of a term or terms in a specific field. Searching a specific field is more precise than searching all fields of the database. Performing a title or subject search in CLICnet is an example of field searching.
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The Advanced Search screen of the Duke online catalog is a good example of field searching, where you can select a particular part of the electronic record to search.  Note that you can often combine different field searches using Boolean operators.  Most article databases have an Advanced Search interface that...
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Although we respect the potential of textual analysis and clustering technologies, we recommend directly searching individual search engines to get the most precise results, and using meta-searchers if you want to explore more broadly. Accepts and "translates" complex searches with Boolean operators and field limiting.
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Patents are divided into many fields, such as inventor name. By narrowing your search so that a document is only counted as a 'Hit' if the term you are searching for occurs in the field you specified, you can greatly decrease the likelihood of having extraneous patents returned.
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Field Searching with Boolean Operators: The menu choices AND, OR, and NOT are contained in the drop-down menus associated with each field. Selecting from these menus allows you to combine terms from several fields into one search strategy.
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