Search Strategies
Visit the Starting Your Research Guide to learn about the research process, especially these pages:
Searching Examples
Here are some examples of how to combine key terms for environmental science topics:
| Technique | Example |
| Combine separate concepts using "and" | ugly fruit and waste |
| Combine similar terms using "or" | ugly or imperfect |
| Put parentheses around similar terms for complex searches | (ugly or imperfect) and (fruit or vegetable) and waste |
| Use quotation marks to find an exact phrase | "ugly fruit" and waste" |
| Use the truncation symbol (usually *) to make a search term open-ended | (ugly or imperfect) and (fruit* or vegetable*) and waste |