Bristol Community College Library Learning Commons: Long Descriptions of infographics and images in Guides: Boolean Operators

AND

"College student" AND anxiety: This search will show results that include both college students AND anxiety.

"College student" AND anxiety AND test: This search will only show results that include all three terms.

OR

"College student" OR anxiety: This search will show all results that include the terms "college students", anxiety, or both

"College student" OR anxiety OR test: This search will show any results that include one of the three terms, even if the other two do not appear.

NOT

"College student" NOT anxiety: This search will only show results that include the term "college student", but do NOT include the term anxiety.

("College student" AND anxiety) NOT test: This search will only show results that include both college student AND anxiety, but do NOT include the term test.

(test AND anxiety) NOT "college student": This search will only show results that include both test and anxiety, but do not include college student. The parentheses matter!