 In this video, you will learn five strategic searching tips that will help you get better search results faster. Utilizing these tools outside of school can help hone your research skills and will produce more accurate and timely information when you need it. Typing your entire question into a database such as What is the impact of overall health and wellness on a student's success will end in unnecessary outcomes. The database or search engine will search for every word in the sentence, which will overwhelm your results. Common words that are only relevant in the context of the entire sentence will be picked up by the search engine, like the word impact. Try to identify the relevant core ideas of your topic, which are health or wellness and student success, and search those terms instead. Not all authors use the same words to describe the same ideas. It can be advantageous for you to think about a couple of different ways your topic or research question can be described. Health and wellness could also be described as well-being or fitness. Why is thinking about synonyms advantageous? A search engine or database will specifically search for the terms you typed in and will not necessarily know to include results with synonyms. By thinking of and including alternative synonyms in your search, you will get more relevant results. The words and or or, sometimes called boolean, can be used to group sets of search terms together in a meaningful way, which will customize the results to suit your specific needs. Use or to group together synonyms while typing your topic into a database or search engine. For example, health or wellness. This allows the database to include both terms and will increase the number of results. Use and to reduce the number of results by letting the database know that two concepts must be together, such as wellness and student success. These two words must appear together somewhere in the article, book, or document for it to appear as a search result. Library databases often have filters to help you narrow down your search. There are many filtering options and they vary depending on the database. Consider limiting by publication year or resource type, which are two of the most helpful filters for narrowing your search results. Limiting by publication year is helpful if you need recent information on your topic or if you are trying to research a specific time period. For example, if you want to know what scholars were talking about right after the Kennedy assassination, limit your publication search to the years 1963 to 1965. Limiting by resource type will help you target specific types of information for your assignment. Ohio University Library staff are there to help you navigate our resources and answer your questions. Please reach out to us with any questions you may have along the way. Finding information and making it accessible is our job. Consider bookmarking our contact page. This concludes the search strategies tutorial.