Develop a search statement to search databases (including news databases), the catalogue, and other academic sources

A search statement includes a list of keywords, combined using Boolean Operators (AND; OR; NOT)

• AND - this will combine concepts, all of which must be found in your list of results
  • media AND children
• OR - either this concept or that concept (or both).  This is helpful for generating a list of synonyms.  Use synonyms to anticipate the different ways different authors may refer to the same idea.  A thesaurus can be helpful for this
  • internet OR web OR online
• NOT - do not include this concept
  •  migration NOT bird
• Quote marks - find a specific phrase
  • "human rights"
• Truncation - any other combination of letters to follow
  • Canad* - will find Canada, Canadian, Canadian's, etc.
  • journalis* - will find journalism, journalist, journalistic, etc.
• Combine one or more of these operators
• Put a list of synonyms in brackets

For example:
(smartphone OR "mobile phone" OR "cell phone") AND (societ* OR cultur*)