1. Boolean Searching Improve your database and internet searching with Boolean operators Carteret Community College Library Content by Tara Guthrie

3. Most online databases and Internet search engines support Boolean searches.

5. OR

7. It retrieves documents that contain both of the search terms or keywords that you specify.

9. Blue shaded area represents search results.poverty crime

11. It retrieves documents that contain either of the search terms or keywords that you specify, but not necessarily both.

12. The more terms you connect with OR, the more search results you will find. (Remember: OR gives you more!)

14. Gold shaded area represents search results.College university

16. It retrieves documents that do not contain a search term in your search.

18. Purple shaded area represents search results.Cats Dogs

21. It requires words to be searched as a phrase in the exact order that you type them within the quotation marks.

23. “New York City”

24. “Henry Miller”Note:Using “quotation marks” will give you different search results than if you use the AND operator between each word without quotes.

26. Use NOT and OR together to limit your search.

27. Use AND and OR together to expand your search.

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35. Sample Question #2 “I want to find information about either Brad Pitt or his wife, Angelina Jolie.” Suggested search: “Brad Pitt” OR “Angelina Jolie”

36. Sample Question #3 “I want to find information about mummies, but not mummies in Egypt.” Suggested search: mummies NOT Egypt

37. Sample Question #4 “I want to find information about behavior in cats.” Consider: Is there more than one search term we could use to find cat-related information? Possible search: Behavior AND (cats OR felines)

38. Sample Question #5 “I want information on designing web sites, but not on specific web design software programs.” Consider: which software programs help you create web sites? Possible searches: “web site design” NOT (Dreamweaver OR “Front Page”) “web site design” NOT software

39. Remember: Your friendly library staff is here to help if you need further assistance!

40. Happy Searching!