Searching for Information on a Topic
4.2 Search Techniques
Putting a Search Together
Before you start to search for information, it’s a good idea to know some strategies for putting a search together. The next video shows how to combine your key terms.
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Truncation and Phrase Searching
There are two more techniques that can come in handy when you’re searching library databases: truncation and phrase searching. Watch the video below to learn how they work.
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Next you’ll learn where and how you can search for information.
definition
A way of making a search term open-ended in a library database. It involves adding an asterisk (*) after the root of a word. For example, Canad*
Putting quotation marks around group of words allows you to search for that exact phrase in a database. For example, "mental health"
