Whether you are looking for a book, article, or website; this interactive guide will give you tips
and resources to start from. Here are some tips
•Boolean Searching: AND, OR, and NOT
•Truncation: cut off the end of a word and use an asterisk “*”
to get more results
Ex: pharmac*= pharmacy, pharmaceutical, pharmacist, pharmacology, etc...
•Use Synonyms and related words to search
•Find subject headings in records to expand and narrow search:
EXAMPLE from the catalog:
search: words anywhere: Child developmental psychology cataloged PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child
Thesaurus Terms for Child Developemental Psychology
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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
You can search with keywords, subject headings, or a combination
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