NRS Search Strategies : Practice pt. 2

Let's try this exercise with a new topic:

"Creating a culture of safety"

First, create a list of appropriate keywords from this topic. Don't forget to inlcude outcome-related terms, such as "injury prevention." Using your list, try the "Suggest subject headings" search to locate a few relevant subjects.

• List the relevant subjects you found. How many did you find?
• Do you have any complementary subjects that you could combine for a search?

Use these subjects to perform a search.

• Did you get any useful results?
• Try using the "Select a field" boxes next to the seach boxes, and change your subjects to "TX All Text."

• How did this affect your results?

Using "all text" instead of subject headings gives you a lot of results, but not much relevant content. Let's use the Subject: Major Heading tool on the left hand side of the results page to find more subject headings.

• Did you get an additional useful headings?
• If you repeat the search with a new heading, do you get more relevant results?