Brainstorm for the best keywords for your Information Technology
research topic or idea:
Use keywords or use subject terms found in library catalogs and databases.
It may be useful, for Information Technology students, to search by:
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Information Technology terms: keywords could include -
’information technology’ (IT),computers,‘computer programs’, ‘computer programming’,’ computer systems’, hardware and software, 'information systems’, ‘information systems design’, ‘software engineering’, ‘systems reengineering’, databases and ‘database systems’, ‘data analysis’, management, ‘management information systems’,‘project management’, ‘business process’, ‘business structure’, ‘Web development’, ‘Web services’,‘information retrieval’, ‘communication networks’, Internet, ‘Internet business’, ‘electronic commerce’,
e-commerce.
- Statistics: For example - 'Statistical Yearbook of the UAE 2005', or 'Economic Surveys'. Keywords could include statistics, annual statistics, and specific dates or business sectors or subjects that you would like to research. You could start with the 'Statistical Resources' listed in the Library Web site.
- Region: Middle East, United States, Asia, etc
- Career focus: manager, electronic commerce, small business, banker, marketing manager, etc.
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Use standard search techniques (remember Module 2 of InfOasis?) to use keywords effectively in catalogs, databases and search engines: |
- Boolean logic: (computers OR programming) will search for items containing either words
- Truncation: data* will search for data, database, databases, etc.
- Phrase searching: "Internet statistics " or "project management" or "electronic commerce " will search for the words next to each other, as a phrase, and give you a much more specific search result
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