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

2. What are the Boolean operators?
AND OR
NOT

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

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

5. Some examples….

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

7. Boolean connectors: OR
Use OR for synonyms OR OR

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

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