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SCM 480 - Supply Chain Strategy

This comprehensive research guide is for Professor Kun Liao’s SCM 480 course.

Research Tips

If you are just beginning your research, we suggest starting in OneSearch.  However, as you get further along in your research we recommend that you move your search into our subject specific databases. Below you will find some search tips that apply both to OneSearch and the Library's databases.

Incorporating search operators into your search is a way to clarify, narrow, or broaden your search. Here are some tips you can use in your own searches:

Quotes

Quotes can be used to identify and search for a specific phrasing of words strung togeher. Quotes can be very useful for searching titles. For example,

The Color Purple Searchs all instances of the term "color" and "purple", ranking instances where they are together more highly
"The Color Purple" Looks for instances for the entire phrase "The Color Purple", and when those words exist in that order

 Boolean Operators

Boolean operators are used to narrow or broaden a search, they include AND, OR, and NOT. Using all-caps in OneSearch is important, and you'll get different results by using lowercase. Here are some examples of how to use boolean operators:

Fireworks AND Explosives  --- Returns instances where both "fireworks" and "explosives" are mentioned in the record

Fireworks OR Explosives   --- Returns instances where either "fireworks" or "explosives" are mentioned in the record

Fireworks NOT Explosives --- Returns instances of the word "fireworks, but not where "explosives" is included in the record

Wildcards

Wildcards can be used to allow for multiple characters in a word. You use a wildcard operator to replace a character in a word, or a word ending and leave that space available to fill many characters.
Single character wildcards: ?

Search Example: wom?n --- searches for women or woman

Multi-character wildcards: *

Search Example: explain* = explained, explaining, etc.