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Enter your search terms and click on "Search" to begin. Connect your terms with AND, OR, or NOT.

If you want all of your terms present in your result list, make sure you use the Boolean "AND." 
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Alternatively, use the drop-down menus to search by popular terms for current events or topics without keying in additional terms. These may also be used as 'limiters' to the keyword search.

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Limiting your results...

While many of the items in this database are full-text, there are some that are not. To limit to full text, make sure you check the full text limiter beneath your search. 

...to full-text only

...to cover stories only

...to published date ranges, by type of sources

You can limit your search to certain published date ranges, certain types of sources (magazines, newspapers, opinions)

 

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