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FYED 102A Superheroes Go to School

This research guide is designed to assist in the fulfillment of curriculum and projects related to First-Year Seminar: Superheroes Go to School

Advanced Search Features in Smart Search

If you use the advanced search feature in Smart Search, you might want to make use of some more advanced search strategies, including AND/OR/NOT (also known as Boolean operators)

AND/OR/NOT (Boolean operators) 

Boolean searching is a great way to limit, widen and/or redefine your search. Therefore, it’s a great search method for complex research topics. AND/OR/NOT are known as Boolean operators and they’re used to define the relationship between your search terms.

  • “and” will narrow your results
  • “or” will expand your results
  • “not” will exclude terms from your results

Phrase Searching- using quotation marks

When quotation marks are used around a phrase (with 2 or more words), it ensures that the phrase will be searched for as a whole and the words won’t be searched separately in the database.

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