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Social Work and Community Welfare

Search Strategy Builder

This tool is designed to help you create a search string using Boolean search operators. Add your key concepts and synonyms then click the 'create a search string' button. The resulting search string can be copied and pasted into a database search box or the Library search box.

  Concept 1 AND Concept 2 AND Concept 3
Name your concepts    
Search terms Search terms Search terms
List alternate terms for each concept

These can be synonyms, or they can be specific examples of the concept

Use single words, or "short phrases" in double quotation marks

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Copy and paste the above search string into a search box

The Search Strategy Builder was developed by the University of Arizona Libraries and is used under a Creative Commons License.

    
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