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* is used to truncate a term, e.g. instead of (democra*) we could have written (democracy OR democratic OR democracies)
" " are used to search for an exact phrase
OR is used between similar concepts, so the search will return results with one of the terms
AND is used between different concepts, so the search will return results with both terms
Possible terms and alternate keywords
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* is used to truncate a term, e.g. instead of (democra*) we could have written (democracy OR democratic OR democracies)
" " are used to search for an exact phrase
OR is used between similar concepts, so the search will return results with one of the terms
AND is used between different concepts, so the search will return results with both terms
Possible terms and alternate keywords
You will want to combine some of these depending on the specific topic you are interested in:
* is used to truncate a term, e.g. instead of (democra*) we could have written (democracy OR democratic OR democracies)
" " are used to search for an exact phrase
OR is used between similar concepts, so the search will return results with one of the terms
AND is used between different concepts, so the search will return results with both terms
Possible terms and alternate keywords
You will want to combine some of these depending on the specific topic you are interested in:
* is used to truncate a term, e.g. instead of (democra*) we could have written (democracy OR democratic OR democracies)
" " are used to search for an exact phrase
OR is used between similar concepts, so the search will return results with one of the terms
AND is used between different concepts, so the search will return results with both terms
Possible terms and alternate keywords
You will want to combine some of these depending on the specific topic you are interested in:
* is used to truncate a term, e.g. instead of (democra*) we could have written (democracy OR democratic OR democracies)
" " are used to search for an exact phrase
OR is used between similar concepts, so the search will return results with one of the terms
AND is used between different concepts, so the search will return results with both terms
Possible terms and alternate keywords
You will want to combine some of these depending on the specific topic you are interested in:
* is used to truncate a term, e.g. instead of (democra*) we could have written (democracy OR democratic OR democracies)
" " are used to search for an exact phrase
OR is used between similar concepts, so the search will return results with one of the terms
AND is used between different concepts, so the search will return results with both terms
Possible terms and alternate keywords
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