Search Strategies: Tips for Searching Databases
Creating a Search
It is important to plan out your search strategy in advance -- follow these four steps to insure that you receive the results that you're looking for:
- Define your topic
- Choose keywords
- Group like keywords together
- Combine keywords in a search phrase
Use single keywords instead of phrases when beginning your search. Since single keywords are searched more broadly than phrases, this will give you a greater chance of success when beginning your searches.
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