UMES Hospitality Management: Search Strategies

Boolean Operators: AND, OR, and NOT 

Truncation: cut off the end of a word and use an asterisk “*”
 to get more results:

Ex: educat*= educate, education, educator, educating, etc...

Use Synonyms and related words to search

1. Search by words and phrases instead of sentences
2. Breakdown by concepts
3. Look at the subject headings/index terms for synonyms and alternate terms