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Developing a Strategy

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Build a Keyword Search

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Build a Keyword Search

Understanding the System You're Searching

Virtually all databases use AND and OR to combine terms. However, not all database handle other search strategies the same way.

Two search strategies that are handled differently by different databases are truncation and phrase searching.

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