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Extract from your topic statement the words and phrases representing each concept. In separate columns or lines, list synonyms or alternate ways of expressing each concept. Enter words representing each idea in a separate database search box, for example:

"corporate responsibility" OR "business ethics"
AND
banking

Enclosing a phrase in quotations retrieves the exact phrase.

Try searching up to three concepts at a time on separate lines in:

and

Then view this short video about Boolean operators:

Database Filters and Limits

You can narrow search results with "Refine your results" to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed Journals)." (Business Source Complete) or "Peer Reviewed" (ABI Inform).

"Academic" and "scholarly" are general terms meaning that the authors are professors or researchers. The article will indicate the authors' names and affiliations (where they work or which organizations supported their research).

"Peer-reviewed" books and articles are vetted by experts who assess the quality of the research and validity of the results based on their knowledge of the subject or methodology.

Use publication date and location limits (such as "United States") to further narrow a search.

Librarians recommend that you avoid limiting results to "full text." Find it @Averett allows you to link out from citations in one database to full text in another -- or to an interlibrary loan request. Limiting to full text means that you will never see those citations.