A good search strategy is to begin your search using keywords, and then filter your results using the options on the right. This can be helpful when your search returns too many results. Filters include Full Text Online, Peer-reviewed, Subject, Author/Creator, and many more. 

Using Advanced Search allows you to add additional criteria and combine different kinds of searches. It also lets you specify filters before you search.

You can often get better results if you search for a phrase by typing quotation marks around the phrase. You can also combine both words and phrases in your search. For example:

"African Americans" psychology

Note: If you do not enclose the phrase with quotation marks, Primo Search will find items that contain the individual words in the phrase, regardless of whether these words are located next to each other in the order specified.

Enter an asterisk * at the end of a word  to perform a multiple character wildcard search. For example,

educat* retrieves the words educate, educator, education, etc.

To broaden your search, use AND or OR between the words or phrases you enter into the search box.

AND will search for items that contain all of the words or phrases.

OR will search for items that contain at least one of the words or phrases.

To narrow your search use NOT followed by the word or phrase you don't want to search for.  

Note: you must enter Boolean operators in uppercase letters. Otherwise, Primo Search ignores them and searches for all of the words and phrases you enter into the search box.