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We're going to be putting together a bunch of webpages for our website that will offer standardized search formulations for topics facets that we see students, especially undergrads, commonly need. An example of what I mean is this one that I made on transgender
issues (EBSCO is our dominant platform so it uses that syntax):</div>
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"Gender dysphoria" OR "gender identity" OR Transgender OR "Gender reassignment" OR "sex change*" OR Transsexual* OR("trans m?n" or "trans wom?n" or "trans person*" or transpeople or "trans male*" or "trans female*" OR (gender* N3 (non-conform* nonconform*
OR fluid*)) OR "sex reassignment surgery" OR "gender transition" OR "genital surgery" OR "Genitourinary organs -- surgery"<br>
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I have another one for Indigenous peoples, one for Canada geographically (eg it includes all the provinces plus the major cities), you get the idea.</div>
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We find that these kinds of "pieces of student topics" often keep coming up across our curriculum, from students doing "English 101" papers, to Psych/Soc majors, to Nursing students, etc. </div>
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I'm not trying to get as complicated as the full-blown PRISMA search "hedges" that biomed researchers use in the systematic reviews, but something appropriate for undergrads.</div>
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I am wondering if any other library has already done this as a collection in one place across the curriculum, as compared with having them buried in various subject-specific Libguides.</div>
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If so, can you please share a link to them?</div>
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Thanks!</div>
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