PolicyFile Guide
Library Guide Series
Introduction
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- PolicyFile contains nearly 4,700
full-text journals
including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.
This is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary
full text database
covering aspects
of social sciences, ethnic studies, education, language,
arts and literature, medical and life sciences, physical sciences,
and many more academic fields.
Many of the files are in the PDF format and require the
Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the articles.
- PolicyFile
is available to current UT Arlington faculty & students at this webaddress:
eresource.uta.edu/cgi-bin/db-policyfile.cgi
Searching
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A truncation symbol in PolicyFile
is an asterisk (*),
and when this symbol is put at the end of a word,
the database will be searched for all of
the possible endings--suffixes--for that word.
For example, the command "terror*" will have the computer search engine
look for all possible endings of this word. It should find,
"terrorist," "terrorists," and "terrorism."
Two Boolean operators that are important in finding information
are AND and OR.
The AND is used to connect two different
concepts and the OR is used between concepts that are synonymous.
It is critical to put parentheses around a search expression
that contains an OR. Here is an example:
(homeless* OR RUNAWAY*) AND
(POLICY OR POLICIES)
The first part of this statement will find material about the
homeless population and runaways.
The second part will look
for the words "policy" or "policies".
The AND
then links the first set with the second.
This should be an effective
way to look for policy or policies for persons without shelter.
John Dillard,
Social Sciences Librarian
dillard@uta.edu
cell: (817) 675-8962 - - SWEL: (817) 272-7518
UT Arlington Library Online
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Last Modified: 2006 August 5
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