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Library 101 - Part 3: Advanced Research Techniques

A tour of advanced research techniques that can be deployed across resources and databases available through the Lyman Beecher Brooks Library.

Advanced Searching

Often, a keyword search is all that is needed to find what you're looking for. But when you want something specific or would like to do several searches at once, you'll need more advanced techniques. 

Some of the advanced tools to help you are Boolean operators, wildcards, proximity operators, and command line searches.