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CUAR 115: Sustainable Cuisine

You're designing a 2-3 acre farm! Use this guide to help you research sustainable practices you can incorporate.

Advanced Research Skills & Strategies

How to use Boolean operators (AND, OR)

  • AND: Use AND to join search terms to return results that contain all specified keywords. 
    • Example: farms AND sustainability
  • OR: Use OR to group synonyms or different ways of describing a concept. 
    • Example: "weed control" OR "pest control"

 

Additional strategies:

  • Phrase searching: Use quotation marks to search multiple words together as a phrase.
    • Example: "crop rotation" AND "crop yield"
  • Nesting: Use parentheses to group synonyms or different ways of describing a concept. 
    • Example: farm* AND (layout OR design)
  • Truncation: Use the truncation symbol (*) to search for variant spellings of words. 
    • Example: farm* AND "crop rotation"

Google Scholar

Google Scholar Search

Tomlinson Library has registered our journal holdings with Google Scholar.  After setting up full text linking for CMU (see next section), you can search Google Scholar and see the full text of articles available through our databases.

Google Scholar

Tell Google Scholar you’re affiliated with Colorado Mesa and you’ll be linked to resources in our databases:

  1. To access Google Scholar, click on the Google Scholar link logo above
  2. Click on the Settings link from the menu at the top of the page
  3. Select Library links from the left-hand menu 
  4. Type “Colorado Mesa University” in the Show library access links box 
  5. Check the box next to Colorado Mesa University—Full-text available
  6. Click Save to save this setting

Google Scholar can be used to search on a topic, but it is especially effective for tracking down a specific article.  If an article is available in full text through the library databases, a link will be provided to the full text.