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Search Smarter: Finding information for the Health Sciences: Introduction

A guide on how to find information for assignments and research in the Health arena.

Health librarians

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Six Steps to searching: 1 Find Keywords, 2 Brainstorm synonyms, 3 find opportunities to us truncation and phrase serching, 4 determine limits, 5 put together a search strategy, 6 evaluate results and repeat the process from an informed perspective

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