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Infectious Disease and Global Health: ProQuest

Description

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  • Provides scholarly materials in the social sciences and science.
  • Allows simultaneous searching of several databases.
  • Includes recommended web sites.
  • List of databases included

Wildcards

  • * replaces zero or more characters within or at the end of a word.
  • ? replaces a single character. Use multiple question marks to replace specified number of characters, e.g., psych????y will find psychiatry or psychology but not psychometrically.

Connectors

  • before and after
    •  terms must be in the order typed with no words between them.
  • near
    • terms must be within 10 words of each other.
  • within #
    • terms may be in any order with no more than # words between them.

Limits

Varies depending on database. Generally language, document type, and date.

Save/Rerun

Save up to 20 search strategies for 6 months.

  1. Select Alert Me.
  2. Log in or register if it is your first time using this function.
  3. Customize as you wish.
  4. Save the changes.

Full Text/Document Delivery

Much full text available. To find sources that aren’t full-text, select Find it@Tufts.