Contact those departments for more information. OR Used in Boolean searching to broaden a search so as to find more records. Using OR to connect search terms means that if any of the terms are present in a record, it will be found by the search. SearchNet A computer network in Alden Library with dozens of workstations. From any of these workstations users can use a menu system to search any of a large number of databases .
Several people can use a single database at the same time on different computers.
Different databases discs may be inserted into the player, much as you can put different audio CD's in an audio CD player. Thesaurus A list of terms used in a particular databases specifically for searching the Subject fields . Using terms from a thesaurus can often produce better search results than doing a free text search . Truncation Searching using a word root plus any suffixes that may occur with it. This involves typing the word root along with a special symbol, which can vary from one databases to another.