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In this section, we will master the important skills of excelling in today's e-World. 

 

To become a pro in searching electronic resources such as databases, e-journals, websites or search engines, you need to learn how to construct Search Strategies. 

 

Why do we need to construct search strategies? This is because computers cannot understand human language, but they are able to match words. 

A search strategy is made up of keywords connected by the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT wildcards and truncation symbols, parenthesis and other limitation marks are also used. 


 
Searching Electronic Resources