• Use AND to combine search terms and narrow your search, e.g. Scotland AND Independence
• Use OR to broaden your search, e.g. television OR radio
• Use NOT to exclude terms, e.g. engineering NOT electrical
• Use brackets () to combine search options, e.g. (oil OR gas) AND exploration
•  Use quotation marks "" to search for a phrase, e.g. "global warming"
• Use an asterisk * to search for words that have the same stem but a different ending, e.g. optic* = optic, optics, optical, optician etc.
• Use a question mark ? to replace single letters, e.g. organi?ation = organisation, organization 

You must use uppercase letters for AND, OR, NOT when using them to combine keywords in SUPrimo.  If you don't use any of these then SUPrimo will assume AND as a default.

Use the Advanced Search to search in a particular field, e.g. title.

Use the exam papers search. Enter the course code or subject.

You can use the Articles and papers search if you're looking for journal articles.

You can also "Search the full Library" and then refine to Articles.

Refine to Peer-reviewed journals to show articles that have come from journals where there is a peer review process.