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Brainstorming Keywords
The Keyword Searching tutorial looks at choosing search terms and planning a search.
1. What is Keyword Searching?
Learn how to have better results with more focused searching.
2. Preparing a Search
Learn how to think critically about your subject terms to express the most important concepts in your search
Combining Terms - Keyword Searching Tutorial
Part of the Keyword Searching tutorial, this section covers combining search terms using AND & OR.
4. Truncation and Wildcards
Resource Selection
Recognizing Scholarly Resources: JABsa
Part of the "Scholarly Articles" tutorial, this section provides a formula for judging the scholarship of a resource.
Evaluating Websites
A guide on determining the reliability and scholarship of websites, Trent University Library & Archives.
Search Tutorials
Finding E-Books
E-books are available from a variety of publishers in many different ways. This page outlines strategies for finding e-books.
