Great World Texts: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 : Search Techniques

How to Develop a Research Topic?

• Developing a Research Question Generator

How do you search within databases?

Some search tips

Boolean Operators 

AND: ALL search terms will be present. Narrow the search.

OR: EITHER search terms will be present. Broaden the search.

NOT: EXCLUDE search terms will be present. Narrow the search.

Punctuation 

" " (quotation marks): search an exact phrase

 e.g., "East Asia"

* or ? (truncation symbol): search the word with the same root/character

e.g. "Chin*" for China, Chinese