HISTORY 201: The Historian's Craft: Holocaust in Visual Culture (Summer 2022) : Find Articles

• Use AND to combine different words to find all those words, in any order.  
  •  holocaust AND photography
• Use OR to combine similar words or synonyms or variations
  •  The Holocaust or Shoah
• Use quotation marks ( " ") to search words as a phrase
  • "Warsaw ghetto" 
• Use an asterisk ( * ) to find varied endings of words and singular and plural forms.
  • photograph* to find photograph, photographic, photographs, photography
• Look at Subjects to find additional keywords and use them to find relevant and specific results.
• Look for an option to limit to Academic Journals on the left side of search results in most databases

This tutorial shows you how to use database search strategies such as AND, OR, quotation marks, and truncation.

This tutorial shows you how to search for articles in article databases.  It shows you how to use AND to combine terms, limit to articles from scholarly journals or by date of publication, use subject headings and abstract to find keywords, find full text of articles, and use tools to generate or export citations.