Subsaharan Africa and the French Language (FREN 165B)  

• Begin with a keyword search of your topic:

language and cameroon

and note the related subject headings that come up in relevant results:

Cameroon--Languages.

• To search for more than one variant of a term, use truncation:

colon* will search for

colonial, colonize, colonization and colony

The database searches for any word that begins with the letters that precede the truncation symbol (in this case, an asterisk). Some databases use other symbols, such as a question mark, for truncation.

• You can also expand your search by including a related term in an "or" search with your first term:

ex. france or french

See the box on Boolean Logic for more about this search technique.