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Information Literacy Tutorial

A tutorial covering research skills, critical thinking, and information literacy.

I am not going to read all this.

Limit & Refine Your Results


If you look up any topic, especially one like the Big Bang Theory, you will likely get thousands of results. Even if you are very interested in it, you probably do not have the time to read everything. When this happens, you should limit and refine your search results. 

Ways to limit your results

Ways to avoid reading 2,000+ articles


There are ways in every database to make your results more focused - below are common ways to limit your search in almost any database and on the Internet: date, language, and publication type.

All of the USV databases have various ways to limit your search results. Email library@usv.edu or chat with the librarian for additional search assistance.

 

Libby (formerly OverDrive)

https://libbyapp.com/library/usv

Click on EXPLORE WITH FILTERS underneath the search bar to find search limiters.


O'Reilly for Higher Education

https://go.oreilly.com/usv-edu

Click on ALL TOPICS underneath the Explore tab to find search limiters.


EBSCOhost

Link to EBSCOhost

Click on Advanced Search underneath the search bar to find search limiters.

Google Advanced Searching, courtesy of Idaho State University Libraries: