Search Strategies

1. ALWAYS use Advanced Search.

2. Use Boolean Operators AND, OR, or NOT to include or exclude two keywords.   

3. Use Limiters such as publication date, periodical title, full-text, scholarly (peer-reviewed), etc.

4. Do not use stop-words. For example, a, an, the, in, of, on, are, be, if, into, and which. 

For many more databases, please visit Databases A-Z  & Journals A-Z .