Library Mojo: adjacency, wildcards, & Boolean operators
adjacency
- Use "quotation marks" to search for an exact phrase: "alternative medicine"
wildcards & truncation
- Use * for truncation (to find variant spellings and endings of a word): wom*n will find woman, women, womyn, womxn, etc.; activis* will find activist, activists, activism, etc.
Boolean operators & order of operations
- For more complex search, use AND and OR:
- AND finds records which have all the search terms you entered.
- OR finds records which have one of the search terms you entered, as well as records which have more than one of the terms. OR finds MORE.
- ​Use parentheses to group terms: ("herbal medicine" OR herbalis*) AND (hispanic OR latin* OR mexican* OR chican* OR "south american*")
And also...Zines!
Gender Studies Database