There are some key search skills you can develop to help your literature search to be more efficient and effective. These are essential skills to have to use in a wide range of different online resources, such as healthcare databases and even google scholar.
Start to develop your skills by completing these online tutorials:
1. Identify
your search terms Learn how to use keywords, phrases, wildcards and
truncation
2. Using
a thesaurus Learn how using a thesaurus can help you to find articles
via databases
3. Combining
searches with boolean operators Use AND, OR and NOT to combine search
terms
4. Applying
filters to focus results Use filters to focus your search results
More eTutorials
Find all our online tutorials on the Information
Skills web page on the Health Library website.
More help
Contact
the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need.
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