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Creating a Search Statement: Boolean
Information Overload
Finding reliable information
Library Databases
Researching a topic
Is television to blame for
teenagers who behave violently?
Combine concepts
television AND violence
teenagersAND
Is television to blame for teenagers who behave violently?
Boolean Operators:
And: Combines Concepts
Synonyms/Closely Related Words
Hispanics: kids: obesity:
Common knowledge
Subject Terms/Thesaurus
words from abstracts
Synonyms/Closely Related Words
Hispanics: Mexican-American, Latinos, Chicanos kids: youth, children, teenagers, toddlers,
adolescent obesity: fat, overweight
television: violence: teenagers:
Select words to express concept.
Is television to blame for teenagers who behave violently?
AND
televisionORTV
violenceOR
angerOR
bully
AND
teenagersOR
minorsOR
youth
Boolean Operators:
OR: Combines Synonyms
Boolean Searching – Week One
Write a clear statement about topic
Divide topic statement into concepts
Find synonyms for keywords
Boolean Search Statement
Is television to blame for teenagers who behave violently
televisionOR
media
violenceOR
anger
teenagersOR
YouthOR
minors
AND
AND
Expanding your Search
Truncation retrieves the various (variant) forms of a word
Example: industrial
Truncate: Industr*
To truncate in databases, use [shift] and
asterisk *
Truncate the following terms:
sexist
disability
education
sexism: sexis*
includes: sexist, sexists, sexism
disability: disab*
includes: disabled, disability, disabilities
education: educat*includes: educating, educated, educator
Example 2
Is there racial inequality in the
workplace?
Divide Statement into Concepts
Is there racial inequality in the workplace?
AND ANDinequality workpla
ceracial
Select words to express each concept
AND
workplace
OR
employment
OR
jobs
AND
race
OR
ethnic
OR
minority
Is there racial inequality in the workplace?
inequality
OR
discrimination
OR
prejudice
Search in Academic Search Elite
Default: Select a Field
Narrow search to words only found in the:
Title
Abstract
Article retrieved by searching Title in Academic Search Elite
Article retrieved by searching Abstract in Academic Search Elite
Boolean Searching
Write out your topic as a sentence
Divide topic into main concepts
Select additional words to express each concept
Truncate where appropriate
In order to search in Library Databases you must first:
Write out your topic in one or two sentences Select your topic main concepts
2 to 4 main concepts Concepts = poverty, Internet, obesity,
college When you use: increase, type of,
improve, caused = list out how it would be measured
Edit: Select a Field (optional)
To narrow Title Subject Terms
To broaden: must use truncation and synonyms first Abstract All Text