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All Learning Commons & Library spaces are closed Friday, May 10, 2023 for staff development.
The second floor of McCormick Library is closed beginning May 10th for elevator modernization and repairs. For details, see our Alerts page.
All Learning Commons & Library spaces are closed Friday, May 10, 2023 for staff development.
The second floor of McCormick Library is closed beginning May 10th for elevator modernization and repairs. For details, see our Alerts page.
Identifying key concepts and what other words or phrases describe that concept you will get more meaningful results. Here is an example of how you can break down a question into concepts and their related phrases.
| Original Phrase | Related words or ideas |
|---|---|
| eyewitness testimony | eyewitness identification/misidentification, false testimony, police lineup, eyewitness errors, lineup identification, eyewitness evidence, eyewitness memory |
| wrongful conviction | innocence, false imprisonment, exoneration, false arrest, wrongful incarceration, criminal justice errors |
| how often | statistics, data, history, frequency, extent |
AND - Finds all the words
OR - Finds either of the words
NOT - Excludes a word from search
" " - Searches as an exact phrase
* - Truncates a term to search for varied endings
( ) - Tells the database to do this part first
