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Tips for
Searching
Combine your keywords for more specific results by using
these basic Boolean operators:
AND, OR, and NOT
Examples:
AND (most common and sometimes a
default)
Need: Information on religion and the
American Indians
Keywords: A – religion B –
American Indians
Search: religion AND American Indians
Results: shaded area
 OR
Need: Information on heart attacks or
strokes
Keywords: A – heart attack B –
stroke
Search: heart attack OR stroke
Results: shaded area
NOT
Need: Information on the Texas Rangers
but not dealing with the baseball team
 Keywords:
A – Texas Rangers B – baseball
Search: Texas Rangers NOT baseball
Results: shaded area
Get the most out of a
one-word search by using truncation!
Truncation symbol:
Add this symbol at the
end of a word in a keyword search to retrieve variant
forms of your search term. Truncation retrieves both the
singular and the plural forms of a word in the
same search. The most common truncation symbol is an asterisk
and less frequently, a question mark or an exclamation mark.
Example:
Teen*
Returns all items with words that begin with “teen” like
teen, teens, teenage, teenagers, teenaged, etc.
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