| BOOLEAN CONNECTOR |
ACTION | EXAMPLE |
|---|---|---|
| AND | Combines search terms so that each search result contains all of the terms. Narrows the search. |
GENOCIDE AND RWANDA would find items that contain both terms. |
| OR | Combines search terms so that each search result contains at least one of the terms. OR gets you MORE!! |
GENOCIDE OR ETHNIC CLEANSING would find items that contain either term. |
| NOT | Excludes terms so that the search result does not have the term. Narrows the search. |
GENOCIDE NOT HOLOCAUST would find articles that mention genocide but not holocaust. |
| PHRASE SEARCHING |
Use quotation marks around a group of words to search for them as a phrase. | "ethnic cleansing" looks for these words in this order. |
| TRUNCATION | Truncation is a way to tell the computer to look for variations of words that start with the same letters. It's done by adding an * to the end of a word | genocid* searches for genocide, genocides, genocidal. |
