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Develop your search strategy
Once you have all your keywords you can build a
search strategy to type into a database. To retrieve
the best results you will need to use Boolean Operators.
Boolean Operators (AND OR) are used by databases,
the catalogue and even the Internet. It is a way
for the database to understand how to combine your
keywords.
Boolean Operator: AND
The word AND is used
to reduce the number of search
results by retrieving only those records that contain
all of the keywords. The AND
connector is used between keywords with a different
meaning.
For example:
- A database search on the keyword children
finds 2,395 records
- A database search on the keyword advertising
finds 1,000 records
The search results will only include those that
include both of the keywords, children
and advertising, i.e. 525 records.
Boolean
operator OR
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