Boolean searching: NOT

1. BOOLEAN SEARCHING
“NOT”
SEARCH TIPS WITH ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE

2. ACCESS DATABASES
FROM LIBRARY HOME PAGE
Select “Article Databases” and then “Browse Databases A-Z”

3. FIND ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE
Academic Search Complete (an EBSCO database) is a
General Database covering many subjects and disciplines

4. GO TO “ADVANCED SEARCH”

5. SEARCH FOR INFORMATION:
VIDEO GAMES AND VIOLENCE AND
CHILDREN NOT ADOLESCENT
Excluding the term “adolescent” will narrow our results
Limit to Scholarly Journals and the last 5 years

6. 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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