The Internet for Graduate Students

Search Hints

• Learn as you go
• Use more than one search engine
• Vary  your approach using new keywords that you learn
• Don't bog down in any strategy that doesn't work
• Read the "help" tips for each search engine to see how they best work.
• Test the main concepts or keywords in your topic by looking them up in the appropriate search engine or by using them as search terms in the Library Catalog and in research databases.
• If you are finding too much information and too many sources, narrow your topic
  by using the Boolean operator "and"
• Finding too little information may indicate that you need to broaden your topic by using the Boolean operator "or".

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Last Updated:  06/12/2003
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