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| Use a meaningful word or phrase | cryptography
charter schools |
| Avoid terms that have little meaning out of context or are too broad to be useful | too broad: development
better: sustainable development and china |
| Automatic adjacency (phrase) | photoelectrochemical cells
freedom of association |
| AND for both, whether adjacent or not | winter and landscape
organic farming and ohio |
| OR for either | hurricanes or typhoons
(online or internet) and voting |
| $ for truncation | greek myth$ |
| ALL FIELDS = words in title, abstract, author, subject, anywhere | authentic learning in All Fields |
| SUBJECT = official vocabulary used for concepts in this database | biogeochemical cycles in Subject |
| Use MORE SEARCH BOXES to combine words or phrases from different regions | skaggs in Author Name And battle of lake erie in Article Title |
| Use LIMIT OPTIONS to restrict results to a particular year, language, etc. | paleolimnology in Journal Title Year Equals 2005 |
| Use THESAURUS to determine official terminology for a particular topic and find all articles on that topic |
ESL |
| Use BROWSE to view an alphabetic list of authors, journals, or subjects | Browse Author Names starting with: engstrom |