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Justice 200 Introduction to Research Methods (for faculty)

Guide to support an embedding information literacy project

Effective Searching

  • Boolean: And, Or, Not

    • And – narrows

    • OR – expands – synonyms

    • Not - eliminates

  • “Phrase Searching”

  • Refining: Expanding/Narrowing/Clarifying

    • Dates

    • peer reviewed or scholarly

    • other words

    • subject terms

    • format

  • Wildcard     ne?t   neat, next, nest

  • Wildcard    col#r   color, colour

  • Truncation  sampl*  sample, sampling

  • Relevance, dates

Subject Guide

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