Wait, there's more! Try the following techniques to make your searches even better.
Phrase Searches
Often keywords are more than one word. Databases let you put quotation marks around these so that only results with the exact phrase are listed.
"rap music"
"cell phone"
Truncation
Shortening a keyword to its basic root and adding a special character (usually an asterisk "*" or "?") at the end will tell the database to search for variations of the root word.
For example, searching for politic* will find:
POLITICS, POLITICAL, POLITICIAN
Note: Check the database's help screens to see which truncation symbol it recognizes. (Most Pierce databases use the asterisk as the truncation symbol.)
Parentheses
Parentheses are used to combine concepts and techniques. The database will search for what's grouped or nested inside the parentheses first.
("rap music" OR "hip hop") AND censorship