CANADIAN POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTIONS

(note:
- broaden topic to: (political parties) if original search found nothing
- add another term if necessary to narrow search: canada and (political part*)
- check subject headings of items found for other search terms as needed

- BROWSE:
320s - Political Science
971s - Canada - History

• The Canadian Encyclopedia Online
• Encyclopedias Page

• use KEYWORD search
• use WCI search as example
• use "SEARCH FILTERS" to delimit location
• sort results if necessary

• most search engines will extrapolate variations of a word if the "main" word is used (eg./ the singular vs. plural form of a word)
• use quote marks " ..." to enclose phrases as necessary
  eg/
  "canadian alliance party" canada

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MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER & JOURNAL DATABASES

• Select preferred package of databases:
  from YRDSB's Trillium Databases (Home access requires password)

  • including Ebscohost's Canadian Points of View

  or directly from
    - InfoTrac by Thomson / Gale - includes all our Gale ebooks (Home access requires password)
   - or -
              from Vaughan Public Libraries - Online Databases (VPL membership required)

• Select appropriate database(s) within preferred package

• Choose "Advanced Search" tab

• Ensure Fulltext selected

• type keyword(s):

  • combine keywords needed with AND operator

  • search most important keywords in Subject field (or broaden search to default fields if necessary)

  • use truncation as required

  • cluster similar concepts if necessary to optimize on line limitations

  • check assigned subject headings of highly relevant articles for alternate keywords

  • no one perfect strategy -- play around for the one that works best for given search

Infotrac articles may be emailed directly to user

eg./ type canada AND (name of party) both under Subject Field AND (policy or policies or platform*) under Default Field

or

- type canada AND (political parties) both under Subject Field AND (policy or policies or platform*) under Default Field

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