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Tips for Conducting an Effective Search
- To view only full-text sources, on the left-hand side of the results page, under 'Limit To', select 'Full Text'
- Limit your search to scholarly sources by selecting Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals under 'Limit To'
- Control the currency of the results by using the date slider under 'Limit To'
- Using an asterisk (*) at the end of a root word will broaden your search. Example: laugh* returns results for laugh, laughing, and laughter.
- Search for phrases by surrounding words in "quotation marks" to keep words together
- To broaden or narrow search results, use Boolean terms AND, OR and NOT to combine search terms. Example:
