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Step 1: Search for the word(s)
Enter one or more words and press Search for a quick search of all
EQ Internet documents.
- Phrase matching is accurate but inflexible, requiring words to appear
together in the order specified. 'management of behaviour' will not
match 'behaviour management'.
- Near words requires all the words to appear close together, but they
can be in any order. This is a good choice if uncertain of the exact phrase.
'behaviour management' will match 'management of student behaviour' but
not 'management of student conduct and behaviour' (too
far apart).
- All words requires that each word entered is present in the document,
but not necessarily close together. 'behaviour
management' will match 'management of student conduct and behaviour'.
- Any word will match even if a single search term appears only once.
'behaviour management' will match 'management'.
Boolean operators
Using the Boolean operators [AND, OR, NOT] to combine terms in a database
search allows a search to be narrowed or expanded.
- AND - to narrow a search. Both conditions must match.
- OR - to expand a search. At least one condition must match.
- NOT - to exclude from a search. A condition that cannot match.
Choose how the words entered are to be treated. Use this setting to filter
out documents which are less relevant to your query, or to try a wider search
if you do not find the right results.
- Exact match only matches the words exactly as you typed them.
This is the default option.
- Fuzzy match helps with spelling / typing errors. 'artic'
will try words like 'arctic' and 'artistic'.
- Stem match also searches for other forms of the word. 'volcanic'
relates to 'volcano'.
- Starts with will only match letters at the start of a word. 'bushfires',
'bushrangers'.
- Ends with will only match letters at the end of a word. 'acronym',
'synonym'.
- Sounds like looks for words which may sound similar. 'eddycation week'
sounds like 'Education Week'.
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Step 2: Search across using
The search facility operates in:
- Full text plus metadata searches everything.
- Combined metadata elements (Title, Subject, etc.)
- Specific metadata elements can also be selected individually for specific searching.
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Step 3: Include the following collections
The collection concept enables resources to be located within specific collections on EQ Internet.
Select and search on one or more of the collections listed in the search. All
collections are included by default.
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Step 4: Show results
Select Details to return the full citation in the search response
or select Titles only. Note: titles only loads faster than details.
Select the number of results to be returned per page: 10; 20; 50; 100.
Note: 10 results per page will load considerably faster than 100. Each page will
have an option to continue to the next page of results.
Select the Sort order of results to be returned.
- Score - the best (most relevant) results are listed first
- Title - alphabetical order by the title of the document
- Date - most recently updated documents appear first.
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Glossary of search terms
Metadata is indexing information about a resource, similar
to a library catalogue record of an item. The Metadata only search offers higher
precision than full text searching because it operates in a controlled indexed
environment.
Full text searching enables a search to be performed on
an indexed list of all words taken from the document. Full text searching operates
on the whole of the document with an increase in recall and a reduction in precision.
Subject terms are selected from the
Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors (ATED) and
Schools Cataloguing Information System (SCIS).
Function terms are selected from EQ's inhouse functional
thesaurus used to support record keeping systems.
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