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Getting
Started
Ways to Search
Basic Searching
Search Methods
Refine Your
Search:
Boolean Searching
and
or
not
adjacent
parentheses
truncation
wild cards
Go
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Refine
Your Search:
Boolean
Searching
Boolean
searching allows you to further define your search.
- You
can do this by adding topics using and,
or and not
between your search words. These are called Boolean Operators
and they allow you to search more than one topic or type
of information (such as an author and subject) at one time.
- Using
parentheses you can group your
search terms into a specific search order.
- You
can also search for adjacent terms;
words that you use together such as computer software
as a phrase.
- Wild
cards allow you to search alternate spellings of a word
or different words at one time.
- Finally,
you can truncate a word, telling
the computer to search all words that start a certain way.
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