Interested in more websites from the National Institute of Health or the National Library of Medicine?

Narrow your Google search to a specific domain or website by doing a site search:

• "healthy aging" site:gov (searches all U.S. government websites)
• "healthy aging" site:colorado.gov (searches some of the government websites for the state of Colorado).
• "healthy aging" site:state.co.us (searches the rest of the government websites for the state of Colorado).

A. Break your topic down into the main ideas, or keywords. Then combine your keywords into a search query:

Link main ideas together with AND to get fewer search results:

aging AND brain

Link related terms together with OR to get more search results:

healthy OR normal

B. Use quotation marks " " to search words as a phrase:

Searching “healthy aging” excludes articles about healthy eating or rapid aging.

BE AWARE of what your quotation marks are excluding -- searching "healthy aging" excludes articles that talk about aging in a healthy manner.

C. Use an asterisk * to search for multiple word endings:

health* = health OR healthy OR healthier OR healthiest, etc.

An article database allows you to search for articles on a particular topic.

Article databases differ by:

Subjects included: Some databases index articles from a specific discipline, such as forestry or medicine, while other databases index articles from many different disciplines.

Document & publication type: Some databases focus on indexing one type of document, such as scholarly research articles or popular news articles. Other databases index a mix of publications types.

Dates included: Some databases index articles published several hundred years ago up to the present, while others only index recently published articles.

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