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ENG 257: Mythological Literature (Stanbach-Loudoun)

Research tips for your final project. Guide by Eliza Selander, Reference Librarian. Direct comments to eselander@nvcc.edu.

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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.

Sumerian AND great flood

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

"great flood" AND Sumerian

Use an asterisk ( * ) to find multiple endings of one word.  Using myth* as a search term will include results that refer to myth, myths, mythical, mythology, and mythological.

myth*