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  • You want book-length treatments of a topic
  • You want to search Clemson Libraries' shelves and ebooks
  • You need reliable filters for authors and subjects

Searching Tips and Tricks

Boolean:
Use OR to include search terms, otherwise use AND and NOT to exlude. Note that these Boolean operators must be capitalized.

college enrollment AND diversity

  

Quotation Marks:
Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases. This is especially helpful for titles.

"capital in the twenty-first century"

  

Parentheses:
Use parentheses to group together related terms.

("Affordable Care Act" OR Obamacare) AND "birth control"

  

Choose Articles, Books, & More if:

  • You want to explore the broadest variety of sources
  • Your topic is very interdisciplinary or very current
  • You already have the title of an article you want

Searching Tips and Tricks

Boolean:
Use OR to include search terms, otherwise use AND and NOT to exlude. Note that these Boolean operators must be capitalized.

college enrollment AND diversity

  

Quotation Marks:
Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases. This is especially helpful for titles.

"capital in the twenty-first century"

  

Parentheses:
Use parentheses to group together related terms.

("Affordable Care Act" OR Obamacare) AND "birth control"

  

Choose Journal Search if:

  • You want to find a journal by title
  • You want to browse journal articles within certain titles

Choose Databases if:

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  • You want to search a specific body of material
  • You need search functions FindIt doesn’t offer

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