Journalism (UNH Durham)

Keyword Searching

• Break your research question into keywords - parts or subtopics of the question
  • e.g., How does climate change affect maple syrup production?
  • Keywords: climate change, maple syrup
• Combine your keywords using AND, OR, NOT
  • Climate change OR global warming
  • Climate change AND maple syrup
• You can add multiple combinations of and separate them using parentheses
  • (Climate change OR global warming OR greenhouse effect) AND maple syrup
• To search an exact phrase, put it in quotations
  • "exercise science"
• To search multiple forms of a word, use an asterisk * for truncation
  • Photo* - will return results including: photo, photos, photograph, photography, photographer
• Keywords are searched from anywhere in the item's record including the title, the description and the article itself