LibGuides: Bachelor of Professional Studies in Health Sciences Management: Using Academic Search Complete

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Large general database of articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers on many topics. Also includes reference books (World Almanac, American Heritage Dictionary), biographies, speeches, images, and other primary source documents.

AND
Use AND to get fewer results. AND tells the database that any item it returns must have all the keywords you entered into the search box.

eg. voting AND race AND president
OR
Use OR when you have more than 1 keyword, but you're not sure which is best. OR allows a database to show you which keyword is best, but bringing back results for all keywords and letting you see which has the most results.

eg. teen OR teenager OR adolescent
" "
Use " " to keep words in the order that you specify. " " tells a database to find the exact match for what you put between the quotation marks.

eg. "declaration of independence"