UNIV 1301: Visual Culture: Academic Search Complete

• Use Limiters
•  You can specified what type of documents you want to retrieve by selecting proper limiters such as document type and years and other limiters available in Academic Search Complete.

• Combine your ideas effectively using:
• AND, to combine terms for specific results
• OR, to allow for synonyms, and to broaden results
• NOT, to exclude terms from your search

• Search Phrases
• Place quotations around the set of words you want to be read as phrases such as "poverty reduction"

Click on the following links to view a short tutorial on each topic. For flash-free mobile and Apple devices click on

Introduction to Online Databases 

Search Strategies for  Finding Articles  

Finding Full-Text Articles  

The Different Types of Articles (Magazines, Journals and Newspapers) 

 Academic Search Complete is the most commonly searched database by UTEP undergraduates because it is a multidisciplinary database and links to more relevant and authoritative sources than Google.