★ Truncation
* (Asterisk) finds all forms of a word: for example,
Zoroast* for Zoroaster, Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrian, and Zoroastrians
eschatolog* for eschatological, eschatologist, eschatologists, and eschatology.
★ Phrase Searches
Enclosing a phrase in double quotation marks, which allows you to search a database for particular words in a particular order: for example, "Ahura Mazda"
Use the Advanced Search function of LibrarySearch. For example,
0:00 – How to find Ulrichsweb, using LibrarySearch
0:51 -- Remember to type in the JOURNAL title, not the article title
1:58 -- Make sure your article is a research article, since peer reviewed journals have other content
3:21 -- You can access the journal through Ulrichsweb
The following video was created by Cambridge University Press. They show the importance of the peer-review process:
