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This section contains advice and resources to help you with the second step of your research assignment: searching and locating relevant, high-quality sources of information.
There are 3 key access points for databases on the Dalhousie Libraries website:
Searching in academic databases involves some strategies that you may not have encountered with general web searching. It's important to consider your keywords carefully and construct logical search strings.
Boolean operators help you develop searches that will connect you to relevant material. Learn more about Boolean operators from the resources and videos below and then try to defeat a zombie apocalypse using your Boolean knowledge in Zombool (created by Dalhousie Librarian, Julie Marcoux)!
This video gives you a quick introduction to how Boolean searching works:
This video goes into some more in-depth techniques to try with your searches: