Check Yourself — Lesson 5

Answers to Exercise 5

1. The typical Dialog Bluesheet includes:
   
   
   a) Field tags, formats, and a file description
   b) The phone number of the database producer
   c) Costs
   d) All of the above
   
   c (Costs are not listed on the Dialog Bluesheet)
   
   
   
2. Write search strategies for the following information requests using the Basic Index when appropriate:
   
   
   1. Find a survey on executive compensation. You want to restrict the search to the title and descriptors.
      
      
      s (survey? and executive(w)compensation)/ti,de
      OR
      s survey?/ti,de and executive(w)compensation/ti,de
      
      
   2. Find an article about e-commerce where Microsoft is one of the main companies mentioned in the article.
      
      
      s e(w)commerce and microsoft/co

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