Web Search Engines
Library Databases
Choosing Search Terms
Connecting Keywords
Truncation & Wildcards
Connecting search terms in a database is somewhat more difficult. These tools often require the use of what are called Boolean operators to connect your keywords and phrases.
The Boolean operator AND helps combine keywords and phrases to find where the terms intersect.
AIDS AND South Africa
This narrows your search to retrieve only those documents containing both the word AIDS and the phrase South Africa.
You can use AND to further narrow your search by adding additional keywords and phrases:
