Keywords

Suggested keywords for your research

Primary Keywords

  • Fashion
  • Textile
  • Sustainability

Secondary Keywords

  • Technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Recycling
  • Design

 

Synonyms

Synonyms are words that have the same or similar meaning. Some topics have many different terms that can be used to describe them.

Suggested Symons

  • Fashion – clothing, apparel, style
  • Textile – material, fabric, cloth, fibres (also search for individual relevant fibres and fabrics e.g. polyester polymers, cotton, wool, silk)
  • Sustainability – environmental impacts, green, eco, renewable, ethically made, environmentally friendly
  • Design – plan, create, think up, innovation
  • Manufacture – development, process, make, fabricate, produce, weave, knit, craft
  • Recycling – reuse, reprocess, reclaim, salvage

 

Alternate spelling

For example, “fiber” is the preferred spelling in American English and “fibre” is preferred in all the other main varieties of English. Both have the same meaning that refer to a thread of filament from which a textile is formed.

 

Boolean Searching

Boolean searching uses 3 operators AND, OR and NOT that aid precise searching.

AND

Helps narrows the results. All connected terms will be included in the search results.

Suggestions

  • Recycled textiles AND textile production
  • Sustainability AND textiles AND apparel
  • “Sustainable Technologies” AND Fashion AND Textiles

OR

Helps broaden the results. Either connected term can be included in the results. Good for synonyms and variations of the same concept.

Suggestions

  • sustainable OR textiles OR apparel
  • sustainable OR technology OR manufacturing
  • sustainable fashion OR sustainable design

NOT

Helps to exclude irrelevant results. The second term will be excluded from the results.

Suggestions

  • Sustainable fashion NOT consumer behaviour
  • sustainable fashion NOT upcycling
  • Sustainable textiles NOT organic crops

Combinations of Boolean Searching operators can be used.

 Suggestions

(Sustainability AND textiles) NOT sweatshops

 

Truncation
Truncation is useful in root words that have multiple endings and helps to yield more results. To use truncation, enter the root of a word and place the truncation symbol (*) at the end.

Suggestions

  • Sustain*  Will include sustainability and sustainable
  • Technolog* Will include technology, technologies

 

Phrase Searching

Phrase searching includes a string of words in quotation marks (“”) that ensures the words appear together in search results. Phrase searching narrows results by defining precisely how words appear.

Suggestions

  • “Sustainable fashion industry”
  • “Textile recycling technology”
  • “Sustainable design strategies”

 

Limiters

Search limiters narrow search results. These include date limitations to ensure only up to date resources are yielded. Search can be refined to yield only peer-reviewed resources.