Introduction to Dialog for Information Professionals
(replaces GEP Lab Workbook)

Introduction to Dialog for Information Professionals is intended primarily for use by graduate students in library and information science or other research-intensive disciplines. The workbook introduces command language, search strategy, proximity operators and truncation, database construction and indexing. Supplementary sections (available online only) provide additional information on search techniques and advanced features of the Dialog system.

Introduction to Dialog for Information Professionals — 2011 edition

• Introduction to Dialog for Information Professionals — single PDF document 688 KB; 78 pages
  
  
• Introduction to Dialog for Information Professionals — multiple PDF documents:
1. Section 1 — Basic Commands 366 KB, 29 pp
2. Section 2 — Planning the Search Strategy 155 KB, 10 pp
3. Section 3 — Database Construction 286 KB, 23 pp
4. Section 4 — DIALINDEX and OneSearch 218 KB, 16 pp
   
   
• Supplementary Sections — multiple PDF documents (assemble in order shown):
1. Section 5 — Restricting a Search 558 KB; 17 pp
2. Section 6 — Using Controlled Vocabulary 228 KB; 13 pp
3. Section 7 — Advanced Commands 194 KB; 11 pp
4. Section 8 — Customizing Dialog 273 KB; 26 pp
   
   
• Exercises 53 KB; 8 pp

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