Search Like a Librarian: 5 Strategies for Optimizing Your Database Usage

Planning to tackle a little research over intersession? Make the most of winter break by optimizing your database searches in Gale, EBSCO, and Proquest databases. We'll cover the following tactics for optimizing your searches: 1) creating basic and advanced Boolean search strings, 2) combining multiple databases into one search, 3) customizing your results view for easier sorting, 4) increasing the precision of your results with subject searching, and 5) creating alerts in your area of interest so the latest research lands right in your inbox.