{"id":1009,"date":"2013-04-29T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T03:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2013-04-29T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T04:22:34","slug":"capital_or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/2013\/04\/29\/capital_or\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover now uses uppercase OR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Discover\" href=\"http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip,guest&amp;custid=s3027306&amp;groupid=main&amp;profile=eds\" target=\"_blank\">Discover<\/a> and the other EBSCOhost databases now require OR to be in uppercase\/capitals when searching for alternative terms.<\/p>\n<p>So for example you could look for: teenagers OR adolescents OR youth<\/p>\n<p>This applies to most search tools, including the <a title=\"Library Catalogue\" href=\"http:\/\/encore.massey.ac.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library Catalogue<\/a>, <a title=\"Google Scholar\" href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.massey.ac.nz\/login?url=http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Scholar<\/a>, many other <a title=\"article databases\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/research\/library\/find-information\/article-databases\/article-databases_home.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">article databases<\/a>, and Google.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t use capitals, the search tools will try to look for &#8216;or&#8217; as one of your keywords, which makes a bit of a mess of your search. If in doubt, look at the Help screen for the tool you\u2019re in. Other operator words (AND, NOT) should also be in capitals.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about how you can use OR and other operator words with either single or multiple search boxes, in our short demonstration on <a title=\"Creating a search strategy\" href=\"https:\/\/connect.massey.ac.nz\/searchstrategies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creating a Search Strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover and the other EBSCOhost databases now require OR to be in uppercase\/capitals when searching for alternative terms. So for example you could look for: teenagers OR adolescents OR youth This applies to most search tools, including the Library Catalogue, Google Scholar, many other article databases, and Google. If you don\u2019t use capitals, the search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-discover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}