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Use Filters to Focus Your Search (#18)

Many databases allow you to use filters to focus your search even more. Typically filters are located on the left-hand-side of the web page presenting your search results.

You’ll often be able to filter your search results by selecting a specific publication date range or type of publication. Specialist healthcare databases will often also allow you to filter by patient characteristics such as age or gender.

icon to represent filtering search results
Use Filters to focus your search results

Complete our etutorial Introduction to Literature Searching to learn more about when and how to filter your search results.

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