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Objectives

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Searching

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Search Strategies

   Choosing Terms

   Connecting Keywords

   Boolean Operators

   Combining Ideas


 

 

 

Combining Ideas

Now it's time to put it all together. Constructing a search using Boolean operators is a little like setting up a mathematical equation. Whenever you have more than one Boolean operator, such as AND and OR, it is necessary to separate them with parentheses. This tells the database the proper sequence in which to search for the keywords.

Although every database won't look exactly like this, they all follow the same general principles.

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