{"id":47422,"date":"2020-09-25T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/?p=47422"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:05:07","slug":"searchtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/news\/2020\/09\/25\/searchtips\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 4 most useful search tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These search tips will work in many different databases, including <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/buprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo-explore\/search?vid=BU\">BU Libraries Search<\/a><\/strong>, Google, and many of our subscription sources like JSTOR.<\/p>\n<p>1. Surround your terms in <strong><em>quotes<\/em><\/strong> if you&#8217;re looking for an exact title or some meaningful phrase.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;review of educational research&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. There are usually many slightly different words to describe one basic concept, so put <strong><em>synonyms<\/em><\/strong> in your search<strong>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>cars OR automobiles<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3. Group like terms in <strong><em>parenthesis<\/em><\/strong> with OR, and capitalize the operators AND, OR, and NOT.<br \/>\n<strong>(cars OR automobiles) AND (hybrid OR electric)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4. Try<strong> <em> truncation<\/em><\/strong>. A search for <strong>teach*<\/strong> retrieves results for (teach OR teaches OR teaching OR teacher, etc).<br \/>\n<strong>teach*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Going beyond these simple tips is also possible in many of our subscription databases.\u00a0 For instance, did you know that in <a href=\"http:\/\/library.bu.edu\/psycinfo\">PsycInfo<\/a>, you can limit a search to show only results related to &#8220;Adolescence (13-17 yrs)&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>For more tips, please search or browse Frequently Asked Questions through our <a href=\"http:\/\/askalibrarian.bu.edu\/\">Ask a Librarian<\/a> service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These search tips will work in many different databases, including BU Libraries Search, Google, and many of our subscription sources like JSTOR. 1. Surround your terms in quotes if you&#8217;re looking for an exact title or some meaningful phrase. &#8220;review of educational research&#8221; 2. There are usually many slightly different words to describe one basic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47422"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105957,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47422\/revisions\/105957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}