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Limiting: Focusing Your Search

Most databases have limiting features that will let you focus the results of your search.

You may be able to limit your searches to :

  • retrieve only scholarly or peer-reviewed articles.

  • particular date ranges.

  • particular journals.

  • articles that are available online in full-text from that particular database.

Keyword search limiting to scholarly articles

However, limiting should be done with caution since it eliminates from your search potentially useful articles .


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