Search Engine Math and Other Operators

"Search Engine Math"
"Search Engine Math--The Easier Way"
""Phrases""
"Nesting (Brackets)"
"Truncation or Wildcards*"

Boolean Operators

"Boolean Searching"
"Boolean Searching--The Operators AND, AND NOT, OR"
"Proximity--The NEAR-Operator"
"Research Guides: Boolean Logic" (with Venn diagrams)
Video: "Boolean Searches"
Video: "Boolean Searching" (using the advanced search in EBSCO)

Advanced Searching

"Power Searching for Anyone"
"Field Searching"
"Menu Based Web Searching"

Miscellaneous

"Pandia's 17 Recommendations for Net Searching"

Reminders

• In search strings using plus and minus signs, make sure there are no spaces between the sign and the word or phrase it applies to. However, there should be a space before the sign unless it is with the first word (or phrase) in the string.
• In Boolean search strings, there should be an operator between every pair of words unless they are within quotation marks.