Boolean searching gives you the ability to combine a variety of ‘operators’ with specific keywords or terms to produce more specific and more relevant search results:
AND – requires all words connected by AND be present in each result
OR – requires at least one of the terms connected by OR be present in each result
Parentheses ( ) – requires terms and operators that occur inside them be searched first
Quotation Marks ” ” – requires words be searched as an exact phrase
Asterisk * – expands a search term to include all forms of that root word
AND NOT – retrieves records that do not contain the term following it