#1 Identify key words.
What climate justice and environmental justice protest events have taken place in California between 2000 and 2021?
- climate justice | environmental justice
- protest | protests | demonstrate | demonstrations | sit-in | march | rally
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#2 Use "double quotes" around TWO or more words to search for a specific phrase.
Phrase searches narrows your search.
Examples:
- "climate justice"
- "environmental justice"
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#3 Use a truncation, also called stemming, to include various word endings.
Truncation broadens your search. The truncations symbol is often an * (asterisk). An asterisk will work in both Newsbank: Access World News and Nexis Uni.
- Example: demonstrat* will retrieve > demonstrate, demonstrates, demonstration, demonstrations, demonstrators ...
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#4 Use Boolean operators AND/OR.
AND joins different concepts > narrows searches
OR joins similar concepts > broadens searches
Note: Similar concepts may not always be synonyms but could represent two different sides of an issue. Example: "air pollution" OR "air quality" OR "clean air"
Sample Search:
"climate justice" OR "environmental justice"
AND
protest* OR demonstrat* OR sit-in OR march
Sample Search:
"environmental protest*" OR "climate protest*"
