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 — 2006 edition

• Introduction to Dialog for Information Professionals — single PDF document (468kb; 78 pages)
  
  
• Introduction to Dialog for Information Professionals — multiple PDF documents:
1. Section 1 — Basic Commands
2. Section 2 — Planning the Search Strategy
3. Section 3 — Database Construction
4. Section 4 — DIALINDEX and OneSearch
   
   
• Supplementary Sections — multiple PDF documents (assemble in order shown):
1. Section 5 — Restricting a Search (159kb; 17 pp)
2. Section 6 — Using Controlled Vocabulary (124kb; 12 pp)
3. Section 7 — Advanced Commands (194kb; 11 pp)
4. Section 8 — Customizing Dialog (273kb; 26 pp)
   
   
• Exercises (53kb; 8 pp)

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