Boolean Operators
Use the Boolean Operators AND, OR and NOT to create search statements to enter in databases, Spartan Search, Google, etc.
![Peanut Butter AND Jelly: only results with both peanut butter and jelly; Peanut Butter OR Jelly: results with peanut butter, with jelly, and with both; Peanut Butter NOT Jelly, results with Peanut Butter only](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/259307/images/Boolean_operators_example.png)
Examples:
- College AND Technology AND Learning
- (College OR Higher Education OR University) AND (Technology OR Computers) AND (Learning OR Instruction)
- (Technology AND Learning AND Elementary ) NOT College
Wildcards
Wildcards allows you to search for multiple terms with the same root at once by using an asterisk.
Examples:
- Educat* = Educate, Education, Educational, Educator
- Child* = Child, Children, Childish
Phrase Searching
Search for exact phrases using quotation marks.
Example:
- "higher education": returns results that contain the exact phrase "higher education"