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Sample One Search: Find articles on "discriminate gays in the workplace"

Separate your concepts into individual boxes and combine synonyms in each search box, 

Search strategies:
(discriminat* OR prejudice) AND (gay* OR lesbian* OR homosexual*) AND (employ* OR work*)
Capitalize AND and OR to connect your keywords
Select the pull down to the right of the search box. Here we've chosen Subject, but you can consider other fields (i.e. Title, Abstract). screenshot of Library One Search, Advanded Search with the search strategy described  in the text

On the search results page, we can set some limits right under the search box. 

Use Academic (Peer-Reviewed) Journals - or use Source Types to include other sources (books, ebooks, reports, magazine articles, etc).
Use All time to select dates
 

screenshot of limits available under the search in Library One Search with call outs to the location of Academic Journals, Source Types, and All Time.

 

When reviewing you can see the Source Types, also look at the subject terms used. These can help narrow or expand your search.

 

results of library one search -  call out to Source Type, Call out to title of source (book title, journal title) and subjects

 

 

You may limit to Content providers (databases)

Click on All Filters under the search box and the box to the right will show.

There, expand Content provide to limit to individual databasesscreenshot Library one Search with call out to All Filters and To content providers