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Public Affairs & Civic Engagement (PACE)

This is a guide to show what resources related to the Institute of Public Affairs & Civic Engagement are available through the library in addition to consolidating information for materials housed in the PACE House.

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Booleans: AND, OR, NOT

  • AND combines two search words together. Both must appear in your article, narrowing your results. 
  • OR allows you to search for synonyms or like terms. Only one of the terms must appear in your article, broadening your results. 
  • NOT removes a specific term from your results.

Quotation marks

  • Phrases stick together as one keyphrase. "climate change"; "blue whale"; "Cretaceous period"

Asterisks

  • Add to the end of a root word to find all words that include all words that include that root term. volcan* - volcano, volcanic, volcanology, volcanism

Limiters

  • Usually found on the left
  • Narrow by subject, date, or peer-reviewed
  • For this particular project, you want to cast as wide a net as possible (at least at first), so you likely won't use too many limiters.