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Boolean operator | AND | e.g. insect AND migration: will retrieve articles containing both words; this will decrease your search results |
Boolean operator | OR | e.g. migration OR dispersal: will retrieve articles containing either (or both) words petroleum OR oil, this will increase your search results |
Parentheses | (...) | e.g. insect AND (migration OR dispersal): will retrieve articles with insect AND migration or articles with insect AND dispersal |
Phrase searching | “___” | e.g. "global warming": will retrieve articles containing the phrase global warming |
Truncation | */? | e.g. dispers*: will retrieve articles containing the words disperse, disperses, dispersing, dispersal, etc. |
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