Limiters allow you to refine your results and tell the database exactly what type of source you are looking for. Every database has limiters. EBSCOhost database limiters are on the left-hand side. Other databases may keep the limiters along the top of the site or on the right.
The main types of limiters are:
Publication and Availability Type:
Full Text: You're asking the database to only show you results where the full text of the resource lives in this specific database. For undergraduates, this may be desirable. For graduate students, the results will become limited
Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals: Remove all the resources from your results list that have not been peer-reviewed and limit to a specific kind of publication type.
Date:
Date: Let the database know what date range you are looking for. Most of the time, you'll want to limit your results to the most recent sources in the last 8 to 10 years.
Source Type:
Source Type: Let the database know exactly what type of source you're looking for.
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