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Guide to using Taylor & Francis Online

Basic Search

The Basic Search box is available from the Taylor & Francis Online homepage.  Basic search is useful for beginning your research or scoping a topic. 

1.Enter one or more search terms in the search box.  Your search terms can be:

  • keywords
  • author
  • article title
  • journal title
  • DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

2. Click the Search icon (magnifying glass)

 

Search tips:

  • AND finds results containing both keywords e.g.badgers AND tuberculosis.  
  • OR finds results containing either one or both keywords e.g. badgers AND (tuberculosis OR TB) 
  • NOT excludes a keyword from your search results e.g. badgers AND tuberculosis AND vaccination -oral.  Warning: using - can result in your search not returning  some results that are relevant.
  • Use quotation marks (" ") to search for a phrase or words together in an exact order e.g. badgers AND "bacterium bovis"