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Advanced Search
Focus your search using the powerful but easy to use Advanced Search.

The advanced search allows combined keywords, authors, dates, and lots of useful limits as shown below.

Image of PsycINFO advanced search showing multiple search boxes, a drop down box that allows limiting by field (quickly limiting by title), limiting to a certain journal, and limiting to current years.


Important features of the Advanced Search:

  • The Advanced search is like the Basic standard search--words side by side are searched as a phrase. To combine keywords:

    Use "And" to find articles with both keywords in any order Example: identity and development (narrows a search)

    Use "Or" to find articles with one or more similar terms
    Example: adolescen* or teen* or youth (broadens search)

  • The Advanced search allows searching for variations on a word by typing the root word then "*". Example: teen* will find: teen, teens, teenager, teenagers, etc.
  • For additional limits scroll down the Advanced Search page

Scroll down PsycINFO advanced search screen to limit by population, age, content, publication type, and language.  Hold the Ctrl key to click on more than one item per menu.

Note: The more limits you place on a search the more narrow the search becomes--and the less articles you will find. If you don't find enough articles remove some of the limits.

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