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Research FAQs: What is the difference between research and inquiry?
Research FAQs: What is the difference between research and inquiry?
Make the Most of Your Inquiry
Make the Most of Your Inquiry
Create a list of keywords and phrases to help guide your inquiry process.
Create a list of keywords and phrases to help guide your inquiry process.
Don't forget the impact of quotation marks! Searching for "Fourth Crusade" vs fourth crusade yields different results.
Allow the auto fill feature to show different ways to phrase your inquiry.
Advanced Search: Boolean Operators
Advanced Search: Boolean Operators
The most common operators to link or separate your keywords are AND, NOT, and OR. Using these operators can either narrow or broaden your results.
Use AND to tell the database that all of the keywords must be present in the results list.
Use NOT to tell the database to exclude certain keywords from the results list.
Use OR to connect similar search terms in the results list.
The picture above was taken from EbscoHost Explora Secondary. The Boolean Operators are built into the Advanced Search features. Use them for better results.
Truncation*
Truncation*
To use truncation, enter the root of a word along with an asterisk* at the end of the word. The database will return results that include any ending of that root.
For example, if you search fish* your results will include fish, fishbowl, fisherman, fishing, and more.
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