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Boolean: Separate Your Search Into Concepts

For example, if you are researching ways to combat plagiarism, you need to split your search into two concepts: combat and plagiarism.

Enter each term into a separate search box.

Next, you need to connect these two terms with a Boolean operator. Using the operator AND will retrieve articles that mention both terms somewhere in the article. Using the operator OR between the two terms will retrieve articles that mention either term.

Boolean AND example

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May 4th, 2004