To AND OR NOT?
Boolean Search
Techniques
nita Ferree 04/2003
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, ?NOT
Boolean search terms are
"tools" that give speed and
precision to your literature
searches. -r.
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BLACK AND WHITE
This Boolean AND search will yield items
where the words BLACK and WHIT
appear in the same article.
Results will not include documents that:
-Only contain BLACK
-Only contain WHIT
BLACK OR WHIE I
This Boolean OR search will yield items
containing:
-Only the word BLACK
-Only the word WHITI
-Both BLACK and WHITE
BLACK NOT WHIT
This Boolean NOT search must be used
with care. It may deprive you of
important information.
It will only retrieve those articles that
contain the word BLACK, but only if
those articles do not contain the word
WHITE.
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know!
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