IST 605: Creativity & Leadership

Use these keywords in your search:

• Creative
• Creativity
• Ingenuity
• Inventive
• Originality

Boolean Operators

Boolean operators are useful for enhancing your searching skills. They offer an effective way to conduct a more efficient search by combining or excluding keywords.

Basic Operators

• AND narrows your search to results containing your keywords or phrases

                 Example: A search for creativity AND business will show results with both creativity and business

• OR expands your search to results containing at least one of your keywords or phrases

                 Example: A search for creativity OR ingenuity will show results that include either creativity or ingenuity

• NOT limits your search to results that exclude your keywords or phrases

                 Example: A search for inventive NOT science will show results that include inventive but not science.

Refining Boolean Search Results

• Use quotation marks to get results of an exact phrase
• Truncate searches by using an asterisk

                 Example: If you search creat* the results will include create, creative, creativity, and creation

Advanced Operators

Advanced operators vary slightly by database so check each ones help guide.