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Country and Culture Guides: Database Wildcards/Truncation

These resources can be used for any HCU students needing to research business practices, culture or country mores, morals or ethics, religions, views of womens and mens roles, views of use of medicine vs. alternative medicine.

Codes per Database

Database Provider

Truncation

Example

Wildcard

Examples

Notes:

Cochrane

*

Arter* = arteries, artery, arterial etc.

?

Ag?ing = ageing -the British spelling.

To retrieve both American spelling and British search aging or ageing Or aging or ag?ing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ebsco-

*

Theat* = theater , theaters, theatre, theatres, or theatrical….

?

Theat?? = theater-American spelling and theatre- British spelling.

Note : searching

colo#r  will retrieve color and colour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

JSTOR

*

Twain* =Twain’s and Twain….

?

Wom?n = womyn, woman, women.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lexis Nexis

!

Twitt! = twit, twitter, twitter’s, twitterers, twittering….

*

Ba**le = battle

Transplant** = transplanted, transplanted….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OVID

$ or :

Attitude: = attitude, attitudes….Inject$ = injectable, inject, injection, injections etc.

?

Col?r = both color and colour.

For Nursing Full-Text Plus Database. Mapping needs to be turned off . Dog$1 will search for only one extra letter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ProQuest

*

Teen*=teen, teens, teenagers etc.

?

Educat??=educator, educated but NOT education.

Kdc 8/6/

 Science Direct

 

*

 s*c*rt= subcohort, statechart, selectsort, etc.

scien*=scientific, science, scientist, scientists

?

 

 exerc?s?? = exerciser, exercised,

 The symbol used once replaces one letter but used twice together replaces two.  These can be interspaced within one word.

 

 

 

 

 

6/09