In my experience, response rates arent great - at least they weren't in an unrelated study I was involved in (2023) where we asked for search strategies. Nonethless, we are excited to compile the evidence on the various supplementary approaches. Stay tuned!

Thanks! That was all Chris. He'll be pleased that it was noticed 😃.

We know DE searches multiple controlled fields (geography, education level, and others) but phrase-indexed. It seems logical that SU searches the same fields (this time word-indexed) and therefore you would get more results.

But I was not able to get all of KW to be retrieved within a SU search

SU is different for sure. As we wrote, SU in PsycInfo (EBSCO) searches the APA thesaurus, keywords (KW), and MeSH field (word-indexed) so that can bring in a lot of noise.

I don't know about ERIC. I tested SU "critical" and KW "critical" and did not get 100% overlap of KW records within SU so 🤷‍♀️

In PsycInfo (EBSCO), the .id field is KW. KW is word-indexed keywords. That field does not search the Subject heading fields in my tests.

In ERIC (EBSCO), there used to be a KW field. Help page says [Keywords or Identifiers - [Word Indexed]
Note: This field is not available for articles after 2017]

In ERIC (EBSCO), I tested geographic location and education level, and both could be searched with the DE prefix as long as you used the exact phrase. I didn't test all of the other controlled fields, so there could be more.

In ERIC (EBSCOhost), other controlled fields such as education level can also be searched using DE " " (phrase indexed).

But that similar phenomenon does not appear (in my tests) to apply to PsycInfo (EBSCO). For context, I tested methodology and age group exact terms using the DE prefix and got 0

Since DE is phrase-indexed, there won't be as much cross-over unless the APA Thesaurus and MeSH term are exactly the same.

Are you perhaps referring to the MESH field? In theory that is a "subject heading" field, so the description provided by EBSCO that DE searches Subject Heading fields (phrase indexed) wouldn't be incorrect. They don't specifically define it as searching the APA thesaurus field.

I don't have stemming as a category on this database syntax sheet (libguides.uvic.ca/ld.php?conte...). Sharing it nonetheless. I might consider adding that function, in the future.

Yes, please.

It looks like the parent PressBook site (through BC Campus) is down right now - not sure if its just for maintenance or if they are having issues. I assume it won't be long. Perhaps it will be back up tomorrow.

Nice!!

Awww, thank you for the kind words 😍

Thank you! I guess it was time 😁