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Forensic Sciences

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

Visit the tutorials below to find out how to use a Omni to find books or journal articles OR indexes to find journal articles.

Online Catalogue
Trent University Library's online catalogue
Finding Articles

Other Useful Tutorials

Searching the World Wide Web
Online Writing Lab (OWL), Purdue University
Finding E-Books
E-books are available from a variety of publishers in many different ways. This page outlines strategies for finding e-books.