Academic Search Complete: Boolean NOT

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Boolean searching: NOT

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S E A RC H T I P S W I T H A C A D E M I C S E A RC H C O M P L E T E

BOOLEAN SEARCHING “NOT”

ACCESS DATABASES FROM LIBRARY HOME PAGE

Select “Article Databases” and then “Browse Databases A-Z”

FIND ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE

Academic Search Complete (an EBSCO database) is a General Database covering many subjects and disciplines

GO TO “ADVANCED SEARCH”

SEARCH FOR INFORMATION: VIDEO GAMES AND VIOLENCE AND

CHILDREN NOT ADOLESCENTExcluding the term “adolescent” will narrow our

resultsLimit to Scholarly Journals and the last 5 years

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RESULTS: 31 SCHOLARLY ARTICLES ON OUR TOPIC WITH CHILDREN NOT ADOLESCENT

However, notice it did pick up “high school students” as we did not specify to exclude that term!

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