Searching Academic Search Complete

Go to mel.org

Select eResources from the top of the page

Go to the letter A or Browse All eResources and select Academic Search Complete

Use Keywords

Remember databases want you to search concepts not sentences

Use Power Searching Search Strategy

Use OR to search synonyms

Example: (women OR woman OR female) 

Example: (teenagers OR adolescents)

Use "" quotes around phrases

Examples: "World War II"   "civil rights"  "social justice"

Use * to search multiple word endings

Example:  congest*  will find the words congestion, congested

Example: technol* will find the words technology, technologists, technological, technologies