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Searching Databases: Limiting Searches


If you are getting too many articles:

Limit your search by: Examples:
Year(s) the last few years: 2005-2008
Type of article
(nature of the article not its content)
review article, clinical trial, etc.
Language English, French, Spanish, English or French, etc.
Subheading
(for a specific "angle" within a subject heading)
Neoplasms/therapy -- Neoplasms is the subject heading & therapy is the subheading. So this search looks for articles that discuss the therapy for neoplasms.
Age groups "Aged" which is 65+ years
Gender "Female" OR "Male" OR "All"
Human/Animal "Human" OR "Animal" OR "All" study groups
More subject headings or title words
combined with the boolean "AND" operator
see: LHS-U's Boolean Logic page
Last updated: Wednesday, 02-Jul-2008 12:11:28 CDT
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