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You will be able to
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To search for specific phrases, enclose them in quotation marks. The database will search for those words together in that order.
Examples:
“data scientist”
“COVID-19 surge”
“shortness of breath”
“star wars the force awakens”
AND, OR
Join together search terms in a logical manner.
AND - narrows searches, used to join dissimilar terms
OR - broadens searches, used to join similar terms
Examples:
#1
COVID-19 AND vaccine
#2
COVID-19 OR SARS-CoV-2
#3
engineering
AND
women OR females
AND
“career choice”
TRUNCATION
Truncate a word in order to search for different forms of the same word. Many database use the asterisk * as the truncation symbol.
Example:
Truncate the word education educat* to search for educate, educates, education, educational etc.
Add the truncation symbol to the word medic* to search for medic, medics, medicine, medicines, medical etc.
Not what other research libraries are, what they will be.
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