Brainstorming Keywords
- With historical research, remember terms can change over time.
- Connect your synonyms with OR. A database will search for either term.
- midwives OR midwifery
- Connect two concepts with AND. Both terms will be present in your results.
- Medicaid Expansion AND (Florida OR Georgia OR Alabama OR "Deep South")
- Surround phrases with quotation marks.
- "Frontier Nursing Service"
Subject Headings
Subject Headings can be helpful when searching a concept like "American South."
- In CINAHL Complete, use the CINAHL Subject Heading and explode: (MH "Southeastern United States+"). Combine with relevant terms.
- In PubMed, "Southeastern United States"[Mesh] will search for articles in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.
