8.3: Related and Alternative Terms
Have you considered using a thesaurus, such as thesaurus.com ? Or adding a thesaurus to your browser search bar ?
Exercises: Select the related terms
An interactive H5P element has been excluded from this version of the text. You can view it online here:
https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/ctar/?p=141#h5p-28
Subject Headings Instead of Keywords
All the searches we have talked about so far have been keyword searches, usually used in search engines. But it really pays to use tools—such as library catalogs and journal article databases—that have subject headings that you can search. Subject headings are standardized terms that are assigned by trained experts. Some such tools also allow keyword searching. See the section on Specialized Databases for more detail about searching subject headings.