Database Searching Tips

• Scholarly and popular materials on a wide range of topics.
• Includes scholarly and popular articles, podcasts, radio show trabscripts, reference books.
• Partial list of databases included.
• Allows browsing by subject and title of publication.
• Over 50% of results are full-text.

• * replaces zero or more characters within or at the end of a word.
• ? replaces one character within or at the end of a word. Use multiple ?s to replace the specified number of characters.
• !  replaces zero or one character; useful when you want to match the singular and plural of a word but not other forms. Can also be used for variant spellings.

• w# (where # is between 1 and 25) specifies that the words must be within # words of each other in the order specified, e.g., history w3 France. For words to be adjacent (#=0), just use w.
• n# (where # is between 1 and 25) specifies that the words must be within # words of each other in any order.

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• date of publication
• publication type
• availability of full text
• source title

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