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Search Strategies and Techniques

This guide will walk you through various search strategies you could use in the library databases.

Refining Search Results

Even with the most perfect keywords in the world, once you start searching in the library databases, you will still need to narrow your search down further in the library databases to find the exact sources you are looking for. There are a few ways that you can narrow down a search even further: