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Research Process: Keywords &Search Tips

Keywords & Synonyms

Search Tips

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