For some topics, even with all the filters, you may still have too many results. If that's the case, the Advanced Search should be your next stop. To get to it, click the 'Advanced search" link below the search box:
The Advanced Search page will open up:
The two main features of the Advanced search are the ability to add multiple lines of search terms to your search and to search for content that appears in specific fields. Being able to add more terms to your search is helpful if you're getting too many results. In this example, there were a lot of results about college athletes, but there will be fewer results that discuss college athletes AND academic performance.
The "All fields" dropdown menu allows you to choose where your keywords are found. By default, OneSearch is looking in all fields to see if 'college athletes' and 'academic performance' appear anywhere. However, you can also specify that you want to search in:
The author's name - AU
The title of the article or piece - TI
The subject terms - SU
The journal title/source, meaning the name of the journal where the article was published - SO
The abstract - AB
The journal's international standard serial number (ISSN) - IS
The book's international standard book number (ISBN) - IB
These options mean that you can do a search like this via the Advanced Search:
In this case, it means that the only results shown will be about college athletes AND academic performance, by authors named Hernandez, that use the subject term "Psychology of athletes."
OneSearch also supports a handy search strategy called truncation, which refers to typing in the root of a word with an asterisk at the end. OneSearch will look for all words that begin with the root but have different endings. For example, searching for politics will only find items about politic or politics. But searching for politic* will find items about politic, politics, political, politician, and politicians -- all without you having to do your search five different times.
