Searching Hints:

• Be specific - avoid using general topics or words, e.g. cancer.
• Exact Phrase searches terms exactly as entered. Place quotation marks around the phrase such as "terminal diseases" and the exact phrase will be searched.
• You can use Boolean operators to link terms together; limit the search to a specific title; and /or restrict the search to a particular date range. These include : AND (to limit or return less articles) OR (to expand to return more articles) NOT (to exclude)
• Grouping words in parentheses allows you to control the search to include the words from left to right in groups. Example: Generalized Search: heart or lung and blood or oxygen or Focused Search: (heart or lung) and (blood or oxygen)
• Think of synonyms for your topic, e.g., old people, elderly people.
• Think of different forms of your search words and use truncation (*) to search for them simultaneously, e.g. medic* will search for medicine, medicines, medical, medics, medicinal, medication, etc.
• Stopwords are commonly used words such as articles, pronouns, and prepositions. These words are not indexed for searching in the database. For example, 'the', 'for', and 'of' are stopwords.