>>> At Drew Library, we have a search engine named Scholarsearch (not unlike Google) that searches all of our resources  for helpful materials for your academic work -- and it even searches outside of our collection. See below for links to videos that describe and demonstrate how it works.

>>> Another good general database to use at Drew Library is ProQuest Central. It looks different because it's not on the EBSCO platform like so many of our academic databases. Give it a try!

>>> For subject-specifc databases (and more focused searches and results), please see next tab in this sub-Guide called "Search Tools by Subject (for DSEMs)" or go to "Resources by Subject."

In general, when searching in academic databases, use these tips to combine search terms

• For phrases: use "quotation marks" around a phrase: e.g. "social media"
• To find all forms of a word that begins the same, but has different endings: use a "wildcard" like an asterisk  *.   Using this notation tells the search engine to search for all forms of the word root, e.g. citizen* gives citizen, citizens, citizenship 
• To combine terms when you want both: use "AND" e.g. facebook AND democra*
• To search terms when you don't want related synonyms: use "NOT"  e.g. citizenship NOT immigration
• To combine terms when you want either: use "OR" e.g. facebook OR twitter
• To combine multiple terms: use parentheses to group the items you want searched in a specific way e.g. (facebook OR twitter) and (democra* not "democratic party")