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Keyword Searching

Identifying keywords related to your research topic will help you focus your search. 

Using different keywords will produce different results.

Google search with the keywords "black lives matter" and "community organizing"Google search with the keywords "black lives matter" and "police reform"Google search with the keywords "black lives matter" and "prison abolition"


Advanced Keyword Searching

Once you have identified relevant keywords for your topic, use these tricks to combine them for better search results.

To limit your results, use the AND

Boolean search with the keywords "incarceration" AND "racism"

To expand your results, use the OR

Boolean search with the keywords "prisons" OR "incarceration"

To search for an exact phrase, use "QUOTES"

Advanced search in OneSearch with the keywords "prisons" OR "incarceration" AND racism AND "prison abolition"