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Library Workshops for MSN Students: Strategic Searching

Strategic Searching

This workshop shows you how to make your searches more efficient, including how to boost a regular keyword search and how to use all of those checkboxes and limiters available in different databases.

These recordings were originally created on August 24, 2017.

Recorded Workshop Video, part 1

The first part of this workshop shows an example of how to translate a research question into effective search terms. Click here to link directly to the video.

Recorded Workshop Video, part 2

This part of the workshop discusses which of the databases' limiters can be helpful, and which ones can make your search too narrow. Click here to link directly to the video.