Research Tips
How to Narrow Your Search
- Combine concepts with AND to find more relevant sources
- picasso AND Africa
- internet AND privacy
- bedrock AND Massachusetts AND hydrology
- Use “quotation marks” to find exact phrases
- "rock art"
- “African diaspora”
- “invertible matrix”
How to Broaden Your Search
- Use ORs and parentheses to combine synonyms or related terms
- (oil OR petroleum OR crude)
- (antibiotic OR antiviral)
- (woman OR girl OR female)
Putting it together in a database
Explore the More Info Page of relevant articles
Scan the abstract to assess relevancy and check for additional subject terms and related articles. Don't forget to save the citation and download the full text of the article while you're there.
