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Searching Tips & Strategies

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Truncation (*)

TRUNCATION is a search technique in electronic databases that allows you to search for multiple endings of root words. This helps you get more results.

  • The * (asterisk) is the truncation symbol for most databases.

 

EXAMPLE:  femini*  

The following words will be searched for: 

feminist, feminism, feminists, feminine, feminize