How to use Expanded Academic ASAP

Too many hits?

If you get too many hits try the following:

• use an AND or NOT search to narrow your search
• consult a thesaurus or index for more specific alternative terms
• use subject headings as search terms
• make sure you have used any brackets or Boolean operators correctly
• try to use more precise terms
• remove any truncation
• try searching in a specific field instead across all of them

If none of these help, you may be using an inappropriate database for your needs. See what others are available.

Many databases offer a thesaurus or index of all the terms within the database, or even build a tree-like hierarchical structure of these terms to help you narrow down what you are searching for, especially in the Sciences. This is often a good way to find out which term a database is using to describe something eg heart attack or heart arrest.