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Advanced Search Options
The advanced search options in our databases give you more
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flexibility for creating complex searches or
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searching different parts of the database.
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For instance, ProQuest databases default to searching ‘Anywhere’ in the text of an article. You can change that drop down to search
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within article titles,
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for an individual author,
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within an abstract.
Truncation
Truncation can also allow you to search databases in an efficient way.
If we did a search for: 
climate chang*
We would get results:
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climate change,
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climate changes,
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climate changing.
Exact Phrases
You can also use quotation marks in your search to keep words together when you perform a search.
For instance, if you want to find articles that 
contain the EXACT phrase ‘rain forest’,
you would search for:
rainforest or "rain forest"
In this example, we are asking the database to search for several things:
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climate chang* (so climate change, climate changes, climate changing..)
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biodiversity
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rainforest OR “rain forest” (that way we find results for rain forest as one or two words).
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