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Getting Started
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Search techniques
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Simple search:From the Oxford journals home page, type in your search term in the search bar.

Phrase search: To search for a phrase, put inverted comas around a phrase.
 * Type Information technology without quotation marks into the search query box. Notice the number of results
 * Type "Information technology" within quotation marks into the search query box. There is a significant decrease in the number of results.
 * If you want to have the search engine search the two words together as a phrase, you must put quotation marks around the words. (e.g. "Information technology").
 * Exact phrase searching is a way to get fewer and more useful results.

Boolean operators: This is where you use operators like AND, OR and NOT. These Boolean operators establish a relationship between the keywords/concepts in a search and thus modify the results from that search.

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 * A searcher can specify that terms must appear in the items retrieved by using the AND operator.
 * Using the operator AND between keywords will limit the results of a search because all the keywords have to be present in order for an item to be retrieved.
 * Using the OR operator results in either or both of your search terms appearing in your results.
 * Using the OR operator will result in a larger number of retrieved items and therefore expands the search.
 * The NOT (or AND NOT) operator forbids the word after it from appearing in the items resulting from your search.
 * NOT or AND NOT thus narrows or limits a search by excluding the keyword immediately following it.