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Searching Tips - Databases
- Use quotes for searching exact phrases
- example: "college students"
- results will only include articles with this exact phrase
- quotes are used to narrow your search
- Use Boolean operators AND or OR
- AND example: media AND sports
- results will include only articles that include both search terms
- AND is used to narrow your search
- OR example: tobacco OR smoking OR cigarettes OR nicotine
- results will include articles that have any of the search terms
- use OR to find articles with similar or related keywords
- OR is used to broaden your search
Mass Communication Librarian
