By using the limit option, you can look at only certain years or certain languages, only research reports or journals, etc. Here are some ways to broaden your search by using the Boolean operator or to combine synonyms, or similar terms, phrases, and related concepts in order to find all relevant records. Truncation Another important way to broaden your search is to truncate, that is, search for the first letters in a word in order to get all possible endings. Most database systems allow you to use a truncation symbol after the beginning of a word to retrieve all forms of a word. For many systems, you may mark records from a list as you look through it, so you can print, download, or email only the records you want.
Every system prints, downloads or emails differently.
Look at the commands at the top or bottom of the screen for help, or find the help sheet for that particular database. Before you give the command to print, be sure that the screen is displaying what you wish to print. Remember that if you are in the Saint Mary's College Library, there is a charge for printing . Instead of printing, you may download to your own formatted floppy disk, or purchase one at the Circulation Desk, if you are in the Library. There are different ways to email records, depending on the database, or whether you are in the Web environment.