Quotation Marks
Sometimes you may want to search for a phrase (2 or more words) in a database. When you are searching phrases, put quotation marks around the phrase. This will tell the database to search the phrase as a whole, instead of as individual words.
Examples
"common cold"
"primary school"
"community college"
EBSCO
![Example of searching "community college" in EBSCO](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/customers/4892/images/EBSCO_quotation_marks_example.jpg)
Gale
![Example searching "community college" in Gale Power Search](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/customers/4892/images/Gale_quotation_marks_example.jpg)