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AND voting AND barriers both words must appear
OR marketing OR advertising either word may appear
* politic* finds politics, political, politician, politicians
" " "public policy" finds this exact phrase
w5 "new location" W5 find* W5 customers
within five words of each other (EBSCO databases such as Business Source Elite)
w/5 "new location" W/5 find! W/5 customers
within five words of each other (Nexis Uni)
Use the asterisk * as a suffix to find all the variations of a word (unless you're using Nexis Uni in which case use an exclamation point ! instead).
The search politic* finds:
political, politics, politician, politician, etc.
Use the word OR to search for various synonyms for your topic.
You can combine both the asterisk and OR to increase your results even more.
The search above looks for either the phrase "white house" or some form the word president (president, presidents, president's, presidential)
Three options for focusing your search include:
