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How to search for scholarly sources

Combine your search terms

When you have collected your search terms and organized them in clusters of synonyms/ broader and narrower terms, you can create a thorough search by combining the clusters together.

Once you've grouped your keywords into different concepts, you can search each group separately. Combine synonyms and similar words within a group using OR. Then, you can combine these searches with AND to get the most extensive and relevant results possible.

For example: