Social Work 440

And: narrowest 

Or: widest

Not: in the middle

Boolean operators can widen or narrow your search by combining search terms/key words in different ways. 

• Cats and dogs
  • Any article mentioning cats and dogs in the same place
• Cats or dogs
  • Any article mentioning cats, dogs, or both (but not necessarily both)
• Cats not dogs
  • Any article mentioning cats without talking about dogs

Example search using Academic Search Premier:

• college athletes and salary
  • 173 results
• college athletes or salary
  • 84,591 results
• college athletes not salary
  • 7,950 results