Taken from UCMerced Library Psychology 120 guide. https://libguides.ucmerced.edu/c.php?g=15926&p=87312
A. Boolean Operators: define the relationship between search terms. When you use a Boolean search, keywords are combined by the operators AND, OR, and NOT. You can use these operators in the database search interface to create a very broad or very narrow search.
B. Quotation marks: use quotation marks to search for a phrase
C. Truncation: Use a symbol, the asterisk * is the most common, to look for variant endings of a word
D. Combine search strategies: Combine search strategies for more efficient searching
A keyword search looks for words anywhere in the book or articles record. Keyword searches are a good substitute for a subject search when you do not know the standard subject heading. Refer to Keyword Chart at the left.