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Information Literacy Tutorial for the Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Helpful Search Strategies

Once you've listed keywords for the main concepts of your topic, you can use some common database search strategies to find relevant articles. The strategies in this section work in most databases and search engines, so your time and effort to learn and practice them will help in this and other courses.

In this section, you'll learn how to use

  • Connectors / Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Phrase search
  • Filters
  • Sorting