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EDAD 611/612 Resource Guide

Practice Boolean Logic for Power Searching

The link below gives you visual representation of what happens when you combine your search keywords with the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT in databases and website search engines.

Knowledge of AND, OR, NOT may help you troubleshoot challenging searches, Even Google uses a version of Boolean (it runs in the background, but you can see it if you use Google Advanced).

Search Google Scholar!

To unleash the full power of Google Scholar, login with your FSU barcode ID# first :Then you can search all the library databases using the familiar Google interface! Links to full-text accessible articles pop up in the right margin.

Google Scholar Search