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<p class="MsoNormal">This is interesting! I just had a student today struggling with the same thing, even when we expanded the databases we were using to include Academic Search and ERIC. I don’t know if it’s just the search terms we’re using, or a more widespread
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear List,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A colleague at my institution reports that the Education Source database on EBSCOhost is retrieving far fewer results than expected.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For example, a “Find all my search terms” search for [k-12 students AND meditation] currently returns 47 results, when in the past the same search has retrieved up to 20,000 results.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone else noticed such a discrepancy?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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