Library Skills Tutorial

Using Online Indexes to Find Articles

Academic Search Elite and Expanded Academic Index are good choices for finding a few good articles on just about any topic. Let's look at Academic Search Elite.

This is the general search screen, and you can search for articles by typing keywords into the search box. Here, we are looking for articles on "nonverbal communication."

The search resulted in more than 500 articles on nonverbal communication! That's too many to look at, and many of them will not be relevant. How can we limit the search to find fewer, more relevant results?