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HIST 211: Reimaging the Caribbean: Empire, Commodities, and Labor 1492-1830 (FALL 2024)

Gale Boolean

  • Gale
    • Asterisk (*) matches multiple characters, but only at end of the word
      • Woman* = woman, womans, womanhood
    • Question mark (?) replaces exactly 1 character.
      • wom?n = woman, women
    • Exclamation (!) stands for one or no character.
      • colo!r = color, colour
    • Near search N# finds terms within # words apart in any order
      • woman N4 colleges = women and colleges 4 words apart
    • Within search W# finds terms within # words apart in that order
      • woman W4 colleges = results where college is within 4 words after woman.

Also uses AND, OR, NOT