Search Terms, Keywords & Search Tips
Searching for reference materials can be fun. Here are ideas for key words and terms to search databases, websites, library catalogs and other reference sources:
Search Tips
- Credit
- Credit Reports
- Credit Reporting Agencies
- Credit Reporting Bureaus
- Credit Scores
- Personal Finance
- Personal Financial Management
Search Tips
- The fewer the words the better.
- If you want to search for a phrase and keep all of the key words intact, put quotation marks "" around your terms - for example "Credit Reporting Bureaus".
- Use And between search terms to focus your search. Results that contain all of th specificed terms will appear in the results list.
- Use OR between search terms to broaden your search. Results that contain one or the other specified terms will appear in the results list.
- Use NOT between search terms to eliminate results that contain terms often found together. Results that contain the word before the NOT will appear in the results list.