| Boolean operators can broaden or narrow your results. |
| Use AND to retrieve results that contain both search terms: |
| ancient AND egypt |
| Use OR to retrieve results that contain any or all of your search terms: |
| poverty OR development |
| Using NOT to exclude irrelevant results: |
| literature NOT review |
| Truncation and wildcards are used to search for any spelling of a word. |
| Truncation: use an asterisk (*) to replace part of a word: |
| child* = child, childs, children, childrens, childhood*plane = airplane, aeroplane, warplane |
| Wildcards: use a question mark (?) to substitute one letter within a word: |
| organi?e = organise, organizewom?n = women, woman |
| Quotation marks can be used to retrieve more specific results. |
| Consider searching for a specific phrase: |
| “case study”“ancient history”“mental health” |
| Consider searching for a specific spelling of a word: |
| “honour” instead of “honor”“centre” instead of “center”“organise” instead of “organize” |
| Use the field options in Primo Advanced Search to streamline your results. |
| Business items only: |
| Select the Subject field and search Business. |
| Theses and Dissertations: |
| Limit the Material Type to theses. Theses by Avondale University graduates can be isolated from these results. |
| Refine by author: |
| Use the Author field to search for items by a particular author. |
| Parentheses combine keywords and control the order of boolean operators. |
| Create more complex and focussed search queries: |
| (ministry AND theology) AND youth(teaching OR education) AND primary(addiction NOT drugs) AND mental health |
| If your keywords aren’t yielding suitable results, consider different synonyms. |
| spiritual: |
| divine, devotional, supernal, sacred |
| customer: |
| client, consumer, patron, purchaser |
