SELECTED ERIC SEARCHES

The keyword search below retrieves 93332+ records. Way too many.

This graphic displays a keyword search using the term, "reading."
Using "reading" as a subject reduces the number by one third, to 65,685. Better, but still too many.

This search is the same as the one above, using "reading" as a search term. However, the search delimiter has been set to "subject." This reduces the number of results by one third.
Adding Elementary Education reduces the number to 13,960.

This graphic displays a search using "reading" as a search term, with the search delimiter set to "subject" and, in the second search box, the phrase, "elementary education" with the delimiter set to "subject phrase." If a search term has more than one element it is a phrase. This search reduces the hits to 13,960
Restricting the search to items only in WIU's library, reduces the number to 2047. Note: this restriction also eliminates all ERIC Documents--despite the fact that we have ERIC Documents in the library.

This graphic displays a search using "reading" as a search term, with the search delimiter set to "subject" and, in the second search box, the phrase, "elementary education" with the delimiter set to "subject phrase." Additionally, the "Items in my library" checkbox has been enabled. This reduces the results to 2074.Note: this restriction also eliminates all ERIC Documents--despite the fact that we have ERIC Documents in the library.
Further restricting the search to the last five years reduces the number to 787.

This graphic displays a search using "reading" as a search term, with the search delimiter set to "subject" and, in the second search box, the phrase, "elementary education" with the delimiter set to "subject phrase." Additionally, the "Items in my library" checkbox has been enabled. Note: this restriction also eliminates all ERIC Documents--despite the fact that we have ERIC Documents in the library. This search is further restricted by limiting the dates to 1997 to 2002.

Adding "girls" as a keyword reduces the number to 5--too few.

This graphic displays a search using "reading" as a search term, with the search delimiter set to "subject" and, in the second search box, the phrase, "elementary education" with the delimiter set to "subject phrase." A third term, in the third search box, "girls" is set to keyword. Additionally, the "Items in my library" checkbox has been enabled. Note: this restriction also eliminates all ERIC Documents--despite the fact that we have ERIC Documents in the library. This search is further restricted by limiting the dates to 1997 to 2002.

Removing the WIU restriction brings the number back up to 20. That's decent.

This graphic displays a search using "reading" as a search term, with the search delimiter set to "subject" and, in the second search box, the phrase, "elementary education" with the delimiter set to "subject phrase." A third term, in the third search box, "girls" is set to keyword. This search is further restricted by limiting the dates to 1997 to 2002. However, the "items in my library" checkbox has been disabled.
A little tweaking using the Expert screen brings the number up to 33. Don't be afraid of the Expert screen. It's pretty easy to figure out.

This graphic displays the use of the expert search area. The search is su: reading and (su="elementary education") and kw: (girl* or females) and yr: 1997-2002 The difference here is that females has been added to the mix. The * after girl signifies truncation.
A bit more tweaking, adding "female" and "gender" to the search and restricting the search to only journal articles gives us 30 journal articles. That's perfect. If we restricted the search to ERIC Documents, we'd get 72 documents.

This graphic displays the use of the expert search area. The search is su: reading and (su="elementary education") and kw: (girl* or females or female or gender) and yr: 1997-2002 The difference here is that female, females and gender has been added to the mix. The * after girl signifies truncation.