Chapter 6: Finding Credible Sources
Search Strategies
You can save time and increase the effectiveness of your searches by understanding fundamental search strategies.
Exercise
The Library Research Guide for Land and Food Systems includes a module to help you understand search strategies. Topics included are:
- Keywords
- Boolean Operators (e.g., AND and OR) to improve the relevancy of your results
- Truncation to broaden your results
- Phrase searching to improve the accuracy of your results.
Spend some time looking through the module. You may want to bookmark it, for easy access in the future.
For additional information about how to search for books, articles, and other resources in UBC’s library catalogue, check out the Research Guide: Library Research Skills for Land and Food Systems for step-by-step instructions.
Adaptations
Material in this section has been adapted from Library Research Skills for Land and Food Systems by Katherine Miller, Sally Taylor, Katherine Kalsbeek, Suzan Zagar, Megan Brown, Maggie Fabber, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Media Attributions
- search-engine © Freepik is licensed under a CC BY (Attribution) license
