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) a and b
   d) None of the above
   
   The correct answer is c
   
   
   
2. Write search strategies for the following information requests using the Basic Index when appropriate:
   
   
   1. Find articles on shark cartilage used as drug therapy.
      (Hint: Drug therapy is a descriptor term.)
      
      
      s shark(2n)cartilage?/ti,de and drug therapy/de (or alternate: drug(w)therapy/de)
      
      
   2. Find an article about the drug that has the trade name Neovastat and its use in cancer treatment.
      
      
      s neovastat/tn and (cancer? or carcinoma?)/de

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