Database Searching: 4. Refine your search

Pick out an article that's relevant to your topic. Databases (and sometimes the authors themselves) assign keywords or index terms to the article.

• Are the terms they used related to what you're interested in?
• If so, then incorporate them into your own search!

Here's a few ways you can find them:

1) Sometimes on the article itself:

2) Somewhere in the database's full record of the article: