Earth Systems Science 100 (O'Day)

Quotation Marks

• Use "quotation marks" to search for a phrase
• • Example: "environmental impact"

Truncation

• Save time by searching multiple forms of a word simultaneously.
  • environment* finds environment, environments, environmental, etc.
  • col*r finds color, colour, colander

Boolean Operators

• Use Boolean operators to get better search results.
  • AND to join dissimilar terms, e.g. groundwater AND fracking
  • OR to join similar terms, e.g. coral OR phytoplankton
  • NOT to exclude some results, e.g. mining NOT hydraulic