Are you getting too many results?
Use the word AND (in all-caps) between your search terms.
- children AND storytelling
- family AND poverty
Search for a Specific Phrase
Put quotations around a group of words like "video games" 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 violence AND (television NOT video games)
- children AND "video games"