Search Tips
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. For example the terms "climate change"; "blue whale"; and "Cretaceous period" should be written in quotes to keep the two words together in your search results.
Asterisks
- Add to the end of a root word to find all words that include all words that include that root term. For example volcan* with an asterisk on the end will return results with the words 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.