Use these tips to make your searches more effective and efficient!
1. Keep your search terms short and sweet, and don't enter entire sentences
Yes: special needs parenting support
No: How can caregivers find special needs parenting support in their particular geographic area?
2. Add (in all caps!) connector words AND (second stated term must be present), OR (one stated term or the other must be present) and NOT (stated term must not be present). (Remember that if you use or, place parenthesis around the terms!)
Yes: special needs AND parenting AND support
(special needs OR disability) AND single parenting AND support
(special needs OR disability) AND single parenting AND support NOT autism
3. End words with * to include variants on those terms
Yes: (special need* OR disabilit*) AND single parent* AND support* NOT autis*