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Research: Searching for information

Boolean searching

You can improve your results by broadening or narrowing your search. 

Broadening means that you can include more results by using alternative terms for the same or similar ideas (OR). Narrowing means that you can reduce the number of results by only looking for results that include multiple specific terms (AND) or excluding specific terms (NOT). 

Phrase searching

Truncation

Wildcards