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Humanities

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Article Databases

Search Tips

Select the most important 2-3 terms related to your topic.  Put the word AND between each new term; this tells the database to look for resources with ALL your terms.

Greek AND Roman

Use quotation marks ( "  " ) around phrases (two or more words); this tells the database to look for the words in that specific order.

"greco-roman" AND culture AND philosophy

Use an asterisk ( * ) to find multiple endings of one word.  Using art* as a search term will include results that refer to arts, artists, artistic.

art*