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Limiting Results
- Notice the keywords used in the search:
- autism
- children or youth or kids
- These terms worked best in trial searches.
- Notice, also, that the search was limited to results where the terms appeared in abstracts in results.
- This made the search more relevant
- Initial search results are usually huge sets.
- Make the results more relevant by placing these 3 limits:
- Full text
- tells the system to only bring up citations with the whole articles
- Date range
- perhaps the last 10 years?
- maybe more recent depending on the topic
- Scholarly articles
- The assignment asks you to find scholarly articles
- These might be called "Academic Journals," "Peer-Reviewed Journals"
For instance:
