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Using the GALLOP Portal Sharing Best Practices for Effective Retrieval September 9, 2014

Using the GALLOP Portal Sharing Best Practices for Effective Retrieval September 9, 2014 Valerie Footz Alberta Legislature Library. Scope Note. Contributions vary by jurisdiction. Percentage of Contributed Items by Jurisdiction (August 2014). Basic Search.

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Using the GALLOP Portal Sharing Best Practices for Effective Retrieval September 9, 2014

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  1. Using the GALLOP Portal Sharing Best Practices for Effective Retrieval September 9, 2014 Valerie Footz Alberta Legislature Library

  2. Scope Note Contributions vary by jurisdiction

  3. Percentage of Contributed Items by Jurisdiction(August 2014)

  4. Basic Search Click on logo to return to this page at any time Your feedback is important! Searches all fields

  5. Results Current search and item result Navigation At a glance “geography” of results Result ranking based on location of and frequency of search terms

  6. Subject headings Text summary drawn from first 350,000 characters (approximately46,000 words) Links to full text

  7. Some records may contain some textual problems which can pose problems when conducting searches Records may have multiple full text items attached

  8. Advanced Searches Limits search to: Title Author Subject

  9. Where to start? • Basic Search – Keyword • Advanced Search - All fields • Advanced Search - Citation text

  10. Boolean Searches • AND – default between terms • compensation remuneration • OR • compensation OR remuneration • NOT • compensation OR remuneration NOT indemnities • Search strings • (member OR mla) AND salaries

  11. Terminology • Truncation/Wildcard - * • gambl* = gamble, gambling, Gamblin, etc. • parl*ment = parliament, parlement • Phrases - Quotation marks for exact phrase • “electronic gambling” (guillemets do not work « langue parlee») • Near – “Term in quotation marks” ~# of words – order of terms does not matter • “electronic gambling” ~5

  12. Fuzzy Searching / Variants in Spelling

  13. Searching by Date • You cannotsort results by date, but you cansearch by date. • Try truncation – 201*

  14. Serials Multiple dates on attached items causes problems for: sorting finding specific issue date range searching

  15. Searching by Jurisdiction • Limit to selected jurisdictions by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking

  16. To Summarize • Citation text = searching Author, Title, Subject only • Use AND, OR, NOT (English operators must be used) • Use parentheses in search strings • * for truncation & wildcard • “quotation marks” for phrase searching (not « guillemets») • To find words near each other, “electronic gambling”~5 • Fuzzy searching – Kowalsky~0.8 • Truncate date 201* to retrieve 2010 onwards • Ctrl-click to select jurisdictions • GALLOP Portal does not reflect the complete holdings of the contributing libraries!

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