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