Use the Advanced Search option in the library catalog.
Use AND between your terms to get fewer results.
Use OR between your terms to get more results.
Search Tip: Use Subject Terms to Broaden or Narrow your Search
Once you find a book that is relevant for your research, look at the subject terms to get ideas for other terms to use:
If
you look at the subjects for this book you will see that the subject
term for “assessment” in our library catalog is “evaluation.”
If
you do this search again and use “Education AND Evaluation” and search
by Subject Words, you will get more relevant results for this topic.
You
can also click any of the subject links to see the number of books we
have on that specific topic. The more terms there are in a subject
heading, the fewer books there will be on that specific topic.
Search Tip: Use Truncation
Add
the truncation symbol (*) at the end of a word in a keyword search to
retrieve variant forms of your search term. Truncation retrieves both
the singular and the plural forms of a word in the same search.
For example, if you type in: Teen*
The database will find: teen, teens, teenagers, teenaged, etc.
