1. Introduction

2. Search Strategies

3. Books

4. Journals

5. Databases

6. Organizations

7. Citing Sources

8. Library Password

9. Ask A Librarian

10. Library Exercise

Search Strategies

Truncation

Using truncation is a good way to expand on the number of results. In many databases, including the library catalog, the wild card you would use is the asterisk, *.

In this search, network* AND wireless, truncation and the boolean operator AND were combined to return results with all keywords that start with network (such as networks and networking) along with all results that included the word wireless.

Notice that this search returned many more results than a keyword search for networking AND wireless or a phrase search for "wireless networking".

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Keyword Searching

Boolean Operators

Field Searching

Subject Browsing

Special Limits