If You Are Getting Too Many Results

 

Limit Your Search by Relevant Factors:

In some cases this may mean using the “advanced search” features of a catalog or database.

 

Limiting Criteria can Include:

  • Language
  • Location of material
  • Format of Material
  • Year(s) of publication
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For example, a keyword search in the

UA Library catalog on "water" yields

3200 results.

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To reduce and focus the search, it is useful to set limiters. tmr3

 

 

 

For this search, limiting to language, location, format and year helped to focus the results. tmr4

 

 

NOTE: These limitations concepts generally apply to all databases