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Law Research Assistants Materials: 7. Limiting

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Limiting

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

Even after focussing results via techniques such as "Review and Refine", you may still have too many resultsthat are irrelevant because they are too old, in the wrong format, etc.

Most databases have a number of limits available, for example:

  • By date
    • eg 2001 or later
  • By format
    • eg journal article (not newspaper)
  • By field
    • eg Subject or Author
  • By audience
    • eg peer reviewed/scholarly/academic