For this reason, you may need to put more thought into your choice of search terms, and other aspects of your search strategy. If your search is not resulting in as many hits as you would like, try using synonyms or making use of the database search engine stem searching or truncation capabilities. You might also try searching a different database. Arthur Lakes Library licenses several hundred different databases. Most full-text databases will allow you to give a command specifying a word or phrase appear in the title.
Some databases are a combination of full-text and citation documents.
Many of these will allow you to specify that only full-text documents are returned. Proximity searching, if available, specifies how close together in the document you wish your search terms to be. Typical full-text database searching will find the specified words anywhere in the document, no matter how distant from each other. Finally, some databases will allow you to do frequency searching, which lets you specify that a word or phrase appears a certain number of times in the record.