Boolean searching involves connecting terms and concepts using the words AND, OR, and NOT in order to narrow or expand your search.
Quotation marks can be used to tell the databases to search for exact phrases, names, and multi-word terms.
Truncation is a technique used to broaden your search. Truncation searches multiple forms of a root word to include various word endings and spellings.
Parentheses determine the order in which the database will search terms and Boolean Operators.
The information timeline is one way for us to think about how different kinds of publications provide different perspectives on a topic based on when they are published. The cycle begins when information on a topic or event appears in social media and newscasts and continues through more comprehensive analysis and coverage in peer-reviewed scholarship and books.
Review this short tutorial to better understand how the timeline works. The tutorial will open in a new window.
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