Truncation is the shortening of a keyword so that other keywords that start with the same group of letters (or stem) will be automatically retrieved. A symbol is used, often an asterisk * to command the database to truncate a term
e.g. Australi* will retrieve Australia, Australian, Australians etc.
Phrase searching ensures that all of the words in the search are found together and in the correct order. For example, if we wanted to search for Australian society, we often need to put double quotation marks (“ ”) around the phrase to force the database or search engine to find that exact phrase e.g. "Australian society".
Note: You can not use truncation and phrase searching together.
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