Use quotes around a phrase to keep words next to each other
- Example: "study habits"
- Example: "new york city"
Use AND to get specific (narrow your results)
- Example: TBI AND veterans
- Example: gender AND workplace
Use OR to search keywords that are similar (broaden your results)
- Example: girl OR female OR woman
- Example: school OR classroom
Use asterisk (*) to get all variations of root word in your search results
- Example: farm* (retrieves farm, farms, farming, farmer, farmers, farmed, etc.)
- Example: teach* (retrieves teach, teacher, teaching, teached, teaches, etc.)
(Note: These tricks do not work in Google (Google Books, Google Scholar, Google Web)
