Using Specific Search Tools for Best Results

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Searching!! Searching!!

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Dive In?

Use a Strategy?

Sink or Sink or Swim?Swim?

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“Phrase searching”

Use “around “legitimate phrases, names, titles

• “vitamin A”•“Lady Gaga” or “Kurt Cobain”•Titles “The Lord of the Rings”•“to be or not to be”

Use AND (example: designer AND babies)

Using AND, you only receive pages including both of your search terms, though not necessarily next to one another.

Using OR, you receive pages containing either one or both of your search terms.

Using NOT includes only the first term and NOT the second one.

AND, OR and

NOT

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ProQuest

ProQuest Advanced Search

Narrow sources by type

Use subject area searches as well to narrow & streamline results

Searches for related content – copy a section from a document to find “similar”

Health Sciences and Nursing Subject Search: Plastic AND Surgery

Check related search terms to narrow results

Narrow results further

Search by Issue or Geographic Region

Subject specific searches

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Quick Links

Quick links for tools

Search by Country or continent

Videos & Podcasts

Search by Subject

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