When searching within the databases, keep the following tips in mind:
Use the following search terms, keywords, and phrases in QuickSearch to locate articles about that topic. Remember, you can combine search terms using Boolean Operators. You can add keywords related to other disciplines to help narrow the results; for example: history, politics, literature, education, STEM, etc.
Use Boolean Operators as a way to narrow or broaden your search:
AND: use to combine different concepts or keywords; each result will contain all search terms
Example: gender AND libraries
OR: use to connect similar concepts or keywords; each result will contain at least one of the search terms
Example: medicine OR health
NOT: use to exclude words or concepts; tells the database to ignore concepts implied by your search
Example: technology NOT database
Parentheses ( ): place around related terms to search for more than one group of keywords
Example: (teaching OR education) AND gender
Asterisk *: use at the end of a keyword to search words that start with the same letters
Example: education AND femini*
Quotation marks “ ”: place around phrases to search for words in that exact order
Example: “women's rights” AND teaching