How to use Expanded Academic ASAP

Using OR with truncation

On the Advanced screen you can combine your first set of search terms. You do this using OR, which will allow you to find all records in the database that contain either or both of your terms.

You can also make it easier to find variations on the words comic and cartoon by using truncation (or wildcarding). Adding * to the end of a term tells InfoTrac to find all the words that begin with that term e.g. comic* will find comic, comics, comic-books etc.

Type comic* or cartoon* into the search boxes, choose the logical operator 'OR', then click on "Search".

Note: you can restrict your search to a particular field by choosing from the dropdown list beginning 'Key Word'. However, when you are starting a search and unsure of the contents of the database, keyword searching is the best to choose.