Museum Studies: Finding Books & Articles
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Academic Searching Tips
Top tips for better search results
Too many results
- narrow your search by adding additional terms (these are linked with AND)
- use phrases, enclose your phrase in quotation marks "" - e.g. “dramatic monologue”
- limit by date, language, part of record (title, for example)
Too few results
- widen your search by using related concepts and alternative words (these are linked with OR) – eg traged* or melodrama
- try removing phrases
Use Thesauri
- some databases have a thesaurus or subject index, use them to make sure you are using the right terms
Time saving tips
- truncation – eg melanchol* for melancholy, melancholic, melancholia (to retrieve words beginning with … )
- wildcards – eg colo?r for colour & color
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- Inter Library LoansIf we don't have a book or journal in stock we can get it for you.
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Off Campus Access
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