Combining words using quotation marks
Sometimes you want to search for an exact word combination.
You can put word combinations or whole sentences between quotation marks. This combination or sentence must then appear exactly as it appears in the document you are looking for. This is very useful if you are searching for a name or a compound term.
Caution! You may miss articles that are about your topic. For example, you search for the exact word combination
"online lecture"
With this combined, you won't find articles with
"lecture in an online learning environment"
You do find those articles with the search
online AND lecture
You can also specify that search terms must occur a certain distance apart. That can make a huge difference in the noise between your results.