Top 5 better ways to find articles

Search for health and biomedicine information.

  • When available, use the Advanced Search, also known as Builder Search or Power Search to build concepts.
  • Use Boolean operators:
    • OR to broadens the number of retrievals from a search
    • AND to decrease the number of retrievals
    • NOT to eliminate the retrieval of specific concepts
  • Quotation marks delineate phrases within a search
  • Choosing the Scholarly and Peer Reviewed choices to retrieve articles will retrieve articles that are published in scholarly and peer review publications.
  • PDF and HTML are the most used options of full article display in databases.  PDF presents as a scanned article right from the publication; HTML presents as one long page of text and sometimes graphics from the publication.