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CMSC 304: Social and Ethical Issues in Information Technology: Search Strategies

Course reviews social issues and the ethical impact of information technology throughout the world. Also examines policy issues that relate to the use of information technology, such as persona, privacy, rights of access, security, transborder information

Searching Tips

Boolean Operators: AND, OR, and NOT 

Truncation: cut off the end of a word and use an asterisk “*”
 to get more results:

Ex: educat*= educate, education, educator, educating, etc...

Use Synonyms and related words to search


Keyword Searching Tips

  1. Search by words and phrases instead of sentences
  2. Breakdown by concepts
  3. Look at the subject headings/index terms for synonyms and alternate terms

UMBC - Searching Tutorials

Search Strategies

Selecting Keywords

Boolean Operators

How to do Research

Phrase Searching & Nesting

Truncation

Assessing Internet Research