- Use AND to combine your concepts, e.g., adoption AND eastern europe
- Use OR to combine synonyms, related terms, e.g., domestic violence OR family violence; teenagers OR adolescents OR youth
- Use the * (asterik) to search for the root word and any ending, e.g., parent* will retrieve parent, parents, parenthood, parenting.
- Try using the Advanced Search to combine keywords and subject headings, author and title, etc.
Sample Subject Headings-Use the Advanced Search, change "Any field" to "Subject"
- social service-cross-cultural studies
- social policy-cross-cultural studies
- social work with children-(name of place), e.g., romania
- social work with women-(name of place)
- public welfare-(name of place)
- adoption-(name of place)
A keyword search in Quicksearch will generally be a broader search than a subject search and can help you focus your topic and results. Examples:
- international social work
- international adoption
- international social service
- international development
- multicultural social work
- social service AND human rights
- social welfare AND global
- social welfare AND human rights AND culture