Begin Research: Self-Check

1) What is important to understand about searching using subject headings?

They can find focused information on a given topic.

They are standardized tags that describe the content of an item.

They are terms used to find material on the same topc.

All of the above

2) Searching by subject headings can also be called descriptor or thesaurus searching.

True

False

3) Which of the following is a characteristic of subject heading searches?

They work well for finding obscure or contemporary topics.

They list highly relevant results for each topic.

They can generate many irrelevant results.

None of the above

4) You get the best results when you use either subject heading searches or keyword searches, but not both for the same topic.

True

False