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DES 395 - Fieldwork Design - Artusi

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Recommended Databases

Health and Health Science Databases

Can't find what you need from this list of databases? UT has many others related to health and the health sciences. Check them out below.

Related library guide

Interested in learning more about how to access, search and use PubMed? Take a look at the PubMed library guide below. It was created to help users get up to speed on this go-to database for biomedical literature!

Search Strategies

Are you getting too many results?

Use the word AND (in all-caps) between your search terms.

  • Dior AND "new look"
  • "fashion designers" AND punk

Search for a Specific Phrase

Put quotations around a group of words like "new look" to retrieve results with that exact wording.

 

Do you need more results?

Use the word OR (in all-caps) between your search terms. 

  • 19th century OR nineteenth century
  • realise OR realize

Use an * at the end of a word to search for all forms of that word. 

  • educat* will return results for education, educator, educated, educating;etc.
  • environment* will also return results for environmentalism and environmentalist

An * can also be used to replace a character in a word.

  • wom*n will search for women and woman

 

Do you need more relevant results?

Use the word NOT (in all-caps) between your search terms.

  • UT NOT Tennessee
  • advertisement NOT magazine

Try grouping the above strategies in a single search: 

  • (children OR adolescents) AND disability AND (19th century OR nineteenth century)

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