Click through this Powerpoint presentation in order to learn how to develop keywords to search a database.
SEARCH TIPS
Boolean Operators -- use the Boolean Operator “AND” to narrow your search:
Example: quality assurance AND hospitals
| Instead of looking through all of the articles on quality assurance, you can limit your results to only those articles which deal with quality assurance as it relates to hospitals. |
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Truncation (wild cards)
This varies a bit from database to database. Most often an asterisk * is used but occasionally a question mark (?) is used. Consult the onscreen searching tips for the specific database you are using.
Ex . Case stud* allows you to retrieve “case study” as well as “case studies”
