Phrase Searching
Put quotation marks " " around phrases to search the term as a phrase. Otherwise the database or Google may separate the words.
"business plan" "minimum wage" "stock market" "Port Huron"
Boolean Operators
Refine your search results using Boolean operators. The three most common Boolean operators are AND, OR, and NOT, but there are others available. The operators AND and NOT will narrow your search and OR will usually increase your search results.
AND - Use AND to find resources with all of your search terms.
“climate change” AND economics
“business plans” AND “food industry”
“minimum wage” AND productivity
OR - Use OR to find articles with either search term in them.
restaurants OR “food industry”
"American Health Care Act" OR Obamacare
NOT - Use NOT to eliminate terms you do not want in your search results.
tariffs NOT oil
