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Keyword Searching
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
- 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