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Search Tips and Strategies

1. Generate a set of terms related to your topic. These will be the keywords with which you begin searching.

Key Concept/Person/Event	Synonym (Related Term)	Synonym (Related Term)
children	juveniles	youth
education	elementary school	charter school
geography	neighborhood	urban OR suburban OR rural
gender	feminine/femininity OR masculine/masculinity	sex role

Search Strategies for Online Content in Primo

Searching in Primo, limit "Show only" to "Available online" in the left-hand column for refining results

After limiting to "Available online," your results should all be electronically available. You will be prompted to login with your myRedlands credentials.

Putting Search Terms Together

Boolean Operators: AND, OR, NOT and Other Symbols for More Effective Searching

gender AND (child* OR youth)=Using the AND operator narrows your search to only results that mention both keywords. Use the OR operator to search for variants or synonyms of the same keyword. The asterisk (*) is a wildcard symbol that is used to catch variant endings of a word (individuality, individualism, as well as individual).

“public housing” AND childhood=Use quotation marks to search for a specific phrase.