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MCO 1302: Mass Media and Society Online

Boolean Operators

diagram that shows the three Boolean operators of AND, OR and NOT and when they would be used in searching in databases

Keywords

You Search in databases by using  keywords. These are the main words in your research question, but they can also be other terms that you have discovered by doing background research. They can also be synonyms of the main terms in your research question.

Searching in Databases

Searching in Databases involves using special terms called boolean operators