Watch the video below to help you refine your search in retrieving information.
Using the Asterisk
The asterisk symbol * serves as a wildcard and can be used to retrieve variant endings of a word. Words will be retrieved if they begin with the word preceding the * operator.
spirit* will retrieve: spirit, spiritual, spirituality, spirited, spirits
Using Boolean Operators
Keywords can be combined with other keywords using the AND operator to narrow your topic. For example:
women AND media
women AND farming
women AND marriage
Keywords can be combined with synonyms using OR to broaden your search. For example:
women OR females
Using Quotes
Quotation marks can be used to search phrases. For example:
"global studies"
"international relations"
"ancient Rome"
Putting these terms in quotes means that the words will be searched as a phrase rather than each word separately.
