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Searching for Articles & Using Databases

Great Searches

If you are finding too much or not enough information, use keywords that are narrower, broader, or similar to the keywords you've already used to vary your results. You could also use boolean operators and/or truncation symbols.

You can combine keywords, boolean operators, and truncation symbols in a search to create a search string to retrieve the most relevant search results

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Keep going on this tutorial to learn how to string together all these skills.