Biology

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 Tutorials

Visit the tutorials below to find out how to use Omni to books, journal articles or media OR subject specific databases to find journal articles.

Omni Guide
A guide for using the Omni search tool.
Finding Articles

Other Useful Tutorials

Searching the World Wide Web
From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL), this guide provides information about how to best use search engines and web directories.
Finding E-Books
E-books are available from a variety of publishers in many different ways. This page outlines strategies for finding e-books.

Last Updated: May 6, 2024 4:45 PM
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Subjects: Biology

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