Research+Strategies+3

=//Based on the book, Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog, by William B. Badke//=

=**Database Searching with Keywords and Hierarchies**=

**3.1 What's a Database?**
a database is any collection of data that can be retrieved using organized search procedures

computer databases are larger than print ones

each database you encounter is different, requiring you to learn how to search each one

you must use the right search technique and good terminology

**3.2 Keyword Searching**
important words that are not a controlled vocabulary, but do include significant words in a record (of an article or a book)

**3.2.1 Database Basics for Keyword Searching**
what you type is what you get, the computer is not interpreting the information; all it is doing is identifying the words you ask for