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[formerly Collaborative Nursing Program] library services page for students in the five participating UW campuses [Eau Claire, Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee and Oshkosh.]
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Search Strategies

Constructing a Search

  • Write down research question and underline key concepts
  • Think of synonyms and alternate terms for each of the main concepts
  • Think broader, or narrower, depending on results of initial searches
  • Consult a thesaurus or index, if available, to narrow and focus the search

Sample questions:

  • What ethical questions are raised by human cloning?
  • What kind of immunization programs are there in schools?   

Sample searches:

  • human cloning and (ethics or morality)
  • school* and (vaccin* or immunization)

Hint: Most library catalogs and article databases use truncation symbols such as the asterisk  *,  to search for several words with the same root stem [see sample searches].

 

Using And, Or and Not

Just what is a Boolean operator anyway?

andnot

 
 

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