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Phrase Searching is VERY specific

Some search topics are multiple word phrases.  Examples:

  • "global warming"
  • "peer tutoring"
  • "genetic engineering"

These words must be found together, right next to each other.  To tell the database that your search topic is a phrase, just add double quotation marks to either end ( " ).

When you do a phrase search, you're being very specific, so it will really narrow down your results.

 

A Victorian light bulbRun article titles as a phrase search in the RamSearch basic search box to see if we have them full-text