1. Keyword Search

2. Specific Vs. General and Synonyms

3. Keywords  Try different combinations of keywords  Try combinations of specific and general keywords  Try Synonyms of keywords

4.  General: Food  More Specific: Meat  More Specific: Beef  More Specific: Steak  More Specific: New York Steak  More Specific: Medium-Rare New York Steak

5. Searching for Articles about Class in America AmericaClass

6. Searching for Articles about Class in America: Use language from Background Research AmericaClassDisparityEconomyWealth Distribution Inherited Wealth

7. Searching for Articles about Class in America: Get Specific/General/Synonyms AmericaClassDisparityEconomyWealth Distribution Inherited Wealth Status United States

8. Searching for Articles about Class in America: Get Specific/General/Synonyms AmericaClassDisparityEconomyWealth Distribution Inherited Wealth StatusInequality United States

9. Searching for Articles about Class in America: Get Specific/General/Synonyms AmericaClassDisparityEconomyWealth Distribution Inherited Wealth StatusInequality United States RichDifference CaliforniaMiddle class Wage gap Los Angeles Poor Homeless

10. Searching for Articles about Class in America: Get Specific/General/Synonyms AmericaClassDisparityEconomyWealth Distribution Inherited Wealth StatusInequality United States RichDifference CaliforniaMiddle class Wage gap Los Angeles Poor Homeless

11. Class in America  Economic disparity in united states  United states wage gap economic

12. Boolean Logic: And, Or, Not  And = each search result contains all the search terms you enter  Or = Each result contains at least one search term you enter  Not = Results do not contain the term you enter

13. Examples  Heart and Lung = results contain both heart and lung  Heart or Lung = results contain either heart or lung  Heart not lung = results contain heart but not lung

14. Using Field Codes

15. Parentheses  Parentheses tell the database what to search for first.  lung or ((kidney and liver) and skin) = 5912 results  (lung or kidney) and (liver and skin) = 9 results

16. Stop Words Are Ignored Stop Words:  Articles  Pronouns  Prepositions

17. Quotation Marks = give exact phrase in search results  “heart lung spots” = results with the phrase “heart lung spots”

18. Wildcard = Return all variations of a word  Enter a question mark ?  Enter a pound sign #  Example: color? = color and colour

19. Truncation  Use * to find all forms of a word  Latin* finds both Latina and Latino

20. Limiting Search Results