Each guide shows a command and provides an example of how to incorporate the command in a search. In some cases further explanations are provided.

Suggestions for the improvement of these Guides are always welcome.

Please e-mail your thoughts to P. Charles Livermore

General concepts of searching and suggestions for better searches can be found at A BASIC GUIDE TO SEARCHING.

ABI/Inform (UMI Proquest) America:History and Life ATLA Religion - coming soon Criminal Justice Abstracts (coming soon) Criminal Justice Periodical Index (UMI) Disclosure Ebsco Host Education Index (coming soon) ERIC (Education) (EBSCO) General Periodical Index (Proquest) Historical Abstracts JStor Inter. Pharmaceutical Abstracts Lexis-Nexis Legal Periodicals, Index to Library and Infor. Sci Abst (LISA) (coming soon)

Library Literature (coming soon) Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts MLA - Modern Lang. Assoc. Index (coming soon) Newspaper Index (UMI Proquest) Political Science Abstracts Project Muse Proquest Databases PsycLit (coming soon) Religion-ATLA Index (coming soon) Religious Periodicals Index (UMI Proquest) Science Direct Sociological Abstracts TOXLINE UMI Proquest Databases Wilson Education Abstracts (coming soon)

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