Search example

We are searching for materials on how the violence shown on TV influences children or teenagers.

The query in the Basic Search form could be:

 (television OR tv) AND (aggressi* OR violen*) AND (child* OR adolescen* OR teen*) .

For the same search in the Advanced Search form we enter the words denoting one concept on one and the same line and connect them with the operator OR. We connect the lines with the operator AND, and on the right-hand column, choose AB abstract as the search field for all the words.

We limit the search with documents published since 2005. In order to search only scholarly articles where full text is available, we choose the delimiters Full text and Peer reviewed.

Build an Advanced Search query with your own search words. Decide upon the search fields and delimiters you wish to use. You can try out all kinds of versions and change the search conditions at every stage of the search. If you do not select a field, (Select a filed (optional ), all fields will be searched, except full text. This could be the best way to start a search.