Or how to put your search together by using connectors Boolean Operators Or how to put your search together by using connectors

What are the Boolean operators? AND OR NOT

Where does the word come from? George Boole (1815 – 1864) An English mathematician and philosopher

What do these words do? They allow you to put your search together, so the database search engine understands what you want.

Some examples….

Use AND to combine different concepts. Boolean connectors: AND Use AND to combine different concepts. AND

Boolean connectors: OR Use OR for synonyms OR OR

Use AND NOT to exclude a concept. Boolean connectors: AND NOT Use AND NOT to exclude a concept. AND NOT

Where do you find the terms in the database? When you do an Advanced Search