Doing your search What search tool should I use? Which type of search should I choose? Which search words should I type in? How can I decide what results to select? What should I do if I don’t get the results I want?

Why may it be better to search Web of Science rather than an electronic journals package? Because that’s what Eileen told me Because Dei told me Because you search all the journals, not just the ones published by one company

The relationship between global warming and extreme weather Global warming Extreme weather AND

Why might you NOT want to search Web of Science rather than an electronic journals package? Electronic journals are cool, man My friends all prefer electronic journals BU Library doesn’t have all the journals indexed in Web of Science

Which word EXPANDS your search, getting you more results? AND BUT NOT OR

Boolean AND search global warming extreme weather global warming and extreme weather

Boolean OR search extreme weather tornado* hurricane* extreme weather or tornado* or hurricane*

global warming or climate change extreme weather or tornado* or hurricane* AND

A complex Boolean search strategy (extreme weather or hurricane* or tornado*) and (global warming or climate change)