IRIS 42: Information and Research Instruction Suite for two-year colleges

Boolean Operators in Practice

Searching ProQuest

Let's use ProQuest's interface to practice using Boolean operators. Using a keyword search, we entered "world wide web" (we put quotations marks around the words because it's a phrase).

A ProQuest search for the phrase "world wide web"

And, WOW! Look at the number of "hits" -- 128,326 articles:

search results screen

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