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Law Research Assistants Materials: 3. Phrases

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Phrases

Key Ideas > Truncation > Phrases > Boolean Logic > Subjects/Descriptors > Review and Refine > Limiting > Citation Indexes

Phrases are words that go together naturally, for example EXAMPLE.

Databases handle phrases differently

  • Some use " " 
    • Brookers, Westlaw
    • eg "sustainable development"
  • Others assume words written together are a phrase
    • AGIS, LexisNexis
    • sustainable development