Architecture Research

Boolean searching is the most effective way to use the online catalog. Boolean searches allow you to combine words and phrases using the words AND, OR, NOT (known as Boolean operators) and symbols like quotation marks, asterisks, parentheses and brackets (modifiers) to limit, broaden, or define your search.

• Use AND in between search terms to group them together
• Use OR for more results
• Use NOT if you want to exempt a word from your results
• Use quotation marks "_" to group words together into specific phrases
• Use brackets (_) to group words together to dictate the order of operations
• Use asterisks _* (AKA wildcard) to capture different word endings, like suffixes, plurality, and tenses

Bennington College, "Boolean Searching," Research Resources at Crossett: Using the Databases, accessed August 27, 2023. https://libraryguides.bennington.edu/c.php?g=561223&p=3862466.

McLaughlin Library, Search Modifiers Cheat Sheet, accessed August 27, 2023. https://learningcommons.lib.uoguelph.ca/item/search-modifiers-cheat-sheet.