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.