Library & Knowledge Service for NHS Ambulance Services in England
Information Skills: Searching
Tutorials, demonstrations and guides from LKS ASE
- Information Skills: Searching
- What is evidence?
- Sources and search tools
- Planning your search
- Boolean AND OR NOT
- Truncation and wildcards
- In Field searching
- Proximity operators
- Limits
- Using thesaural terms
- Putting it all together - executing a search
- Managing your search results
- Managers and trainers
Proximity operators
Proximity operators specify the number of words allowed between the keywords you want to find in your search. Broadly, if you search for keywords within 5 words of each other those words are likely to be in the same sentence and within 10 words in the same paragraph. Keywords that are in close proximity will have a more specific meaning than those in loose proximity to each other.
Guide to proximity operators
Guide in Microsoft Word. Click to download.
Proximity operators - YouTube
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Proximity operators - Vimeo
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