The research process begins with locating high quality background information on a topic. Within OneSearch, we can often find background information by examining a Research Starter. 

Aside from providing general background information on a topic, a Research Starter also introduces specific keywords and concepts that we can use to focus our research.  

Once you've done some background research, and explored the concepts and keywords involved with your topic, you can use OneSearch's Advanced Search feature to locate more specific information.  

Let's review the steps we took during our class session to reach the Advanced Search feature and narrow our research.

• On the library homepage, we entered our research topic into the OneSearch box. In class, we used the example of law enforcement
• Expand to an Advanced Search.
• In the second box we add another second term. We entered the term training after exploring a Research Starter and deciding that this was a topic that we wanted to research in more depth.  

The "AND" that appears between the two boxes acts as a connector between the search terms. It is letting OneSearch know that we only want to locate results that include the topic of law enforcement AND training. 

This is how our search appears in OneSearch's Advanced Search feature. 

OneSearch provides tools that allow us to quickly and easily limit the number of search results. Known as search limiters, these tools are incredibly useful when presented with an excessive number of search results. 

Some examples of common search limiters are listed below. They allow us to narrow our results based on:

• Date range
• Whether or not an article is from a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal
• Source Type (magazine, newspaper, academic journal, etc.)
• Language 
• Content Provider (i.e. database provider)
• Publication (example: New York Times)