Effective ways to search online will differ slightly from database to database, but there are many general search strategies that can be helpful to you.

You may search by keyword in all of the databases. You can type in either a single word like business, or phrases like affirmative action. The database looks through every article record and retrieves the records containing your search term(s).

What if you want to narrow your search to find the most relevant information on your topic? What if you want to broaden your search to find more on your topic? To narrow or broaden a search, you can use the Boolean operators "and" and "or." These operators were discussed in detail earlier in the tutorial.