AND |
Combine keywords with AND to narrow your search. Example: adolescents AND depression |
OR |
Combine keywords with OR to broaden your search. This works well for synonyms. Example: adolescents OR teenagers |
“phrase search” |
Put quotes around multiword searches to find only documents that contain those words as a phrase. Example: “youth ministry” |
truncation (*) |
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ATLA Religion Database:
While searching for children's/youth ministry in the database will bring up results, the actual subject heading for articles in this area is "church work with youth." Use this in a subject search to pull up the best and most complete list of results!
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