Electronic Search Strategies: Comparison at a Glance
Electronic Search Strategies: Comparison at a Glance
Keyword Searching |
Subject Searching |
|---|---|
| searches in any number of fields and/or the full text of documents | searches only in the subject/descriptor field |
any significant words/phrases can be considered keywords |
search terms must come from the database's thesaurus |
number of items retrieved potentially large on the Web |
number of items retrieved potentially smaller |
| may retrieve irrelevant items | high degree of relevancy |
