Search Subject-Specific Databases
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Login with your torontomu account
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To identify databases relevant to Occupational and Public Health, look at the recommendations on the research guide for the program
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Use the Advanced Search options to create more detailed searches and expand relevant results
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Play with synonyms (like terms) to expand your results, using Boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT) in databases
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Use truncation, *, to search for root variant of words where applicable, e.g. nurs* will retrieve nurse, nurses, nursing
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Separate your concepts into individual rows to include synonymous terms, e.g. stress OR anxiety
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Modify your search where necessary, making use of field-specific searching, e.g. searching for your terms more narrowly in specific parts of the article, e.g. abstract
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Take advantage of additional features in databases, which can help identify highly-cited research, specific types of research design, and other subsets of the literature
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If the full-text of the article is not in the database, use the Check TMU Library links to find full-text, where available
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Example of an advanced search in PsycInfo - video embedded below:
