AND finds records with all of your terms/keywords and narrows your search.
OR finds records with any of the terms and broadens your search.
Truncation finds records with a term's various endings. For example, nurs* = nurse, nurses, nursing, nursed, etc.
Quotation marks search for a phrase instead of individual words. For example, "social media".
Sometimes you will need to find a specific type of research paper, for example qualitative or quantitative research, or review articles. These tips will help you limit your results.
Quantitative (which is about the measurement of a construct and is often numerical, precise, measurable)
Qualitative (which is research for working at eliciting a narrative response and is experiential, not as easily measurable numerically)
Review (systematic, scoping, narrative, etc.)
Use boolean operators to make your search more effective.
Quotation marks find phrases instead of individual words ("social media").
AND finds records with all of your terms/keywords and narrows your search ("media streaming" AND covid-19).
OR finds records with any of the terms and broadens your search (youth OR teen OR adolescent).
Truncation finds records with a term's various endings (nurs* = nurse, nursing, nursed, nurses, nursing's).
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