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Building Your Search Strategy

Before you begin searching in large article databases such as CINAHL or PubMed, be sure to create an effective search strategy to obtain optimal results.  Please download the document below.

Brainstorming Examples to Retrieve More Results

Examples of brainstorming synonyms / word variants and using the word or to get more results:

Example 1:

gas or gasoline or fuel or petrol 

Example 2: 

cow or cows or cattle or bovine

CTRL F

When in a webpage, word document, or PDF document, if you do not see the key text you are looking for, click on CTRL F.  This will bring up a find box that allows you to type in a keyword of interest, and it will jump you to that keyword in the text.  See the excellent video tutorial linked below on using CTRL F to find keywords.

A handy CTRL key trick to jump to words of interest