Using Google Effectively for Academic Research EdUHK Library Mar 2017

Outline Google Basic More Google Google Scholar Google Books Google ≠ Everything you Need Do we have a Trust Issue Here?

Google Basics Upper case or lower case doesn't matter Word Order, Phrases – put phrases in double quotes; most important words first kowloon city vs city kowloon vs "kowloon city" english speakers learning cantonese vs cantonese speakers learning english Fix spelling errors automatically acticve learning vs active learning Exclude some words – use minus sign adolescents will find a lot of results about the web browser offered by Google; use adolescents -children to remove search results mentioning children "I'm Feeling Lucky" button takes users directly to the first search result, e.g. enter "eduhk" http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861 E.g. Put quotation marks around words "[any word]" to search for an exact phrase in an exact order. Keep in mind that searching with quotes might exclude relevant results. For instance, a search for "Alexander Bell" will miss pages that refer to Alexander G. Bell.

Google Advanced Searches Reserved word: OR chinese american movies = [chinese] and [american] and [movies] chinese OR american movies = chinese OR american and movies Site and domain search "electronic road pricing" site:gov "small class teaching" site:gov.hk "opening hours" site:lib.eduhk.hk Filetype search unemployment rate hong kong japan singapore filetype:xls ipad user guide filetype:pdf How google works? http://www.googleguide.com/google_works.html

More on Advanced Search https://www.google.com/advanced_search

SafeSearch Filters Block explicit results on Google using SafeSearch https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/510

Cached Links in Search Results https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1687222

More Tricks to Find Quick Answers Get definitions – define: bystander effect Calculator – 23*85-20 Conversion 3259 seconds in hours 10km in miles -10C in F Foreign Exchange hkd in cny 100 eur in hkd Search features: http://www.google.com/help/features.html https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/insidesearch/tipstricks/all.html

Try it yourself Definition Define cyberbullying Define supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Finding about Weather Weather Beijing Weather Okinawa Searching a specific file type or a particular types of site: Google tips filetype:pdf “academic writing” site:edu.hk Calculation 23*85-20= 100*3.14-cos(83)= Get number conversions 100 miles in km 100F in C (Fahrenheit -> Celsius) Get currency conversions 1206 cny in hkd 6230 eur in hkd Get the time Time Tokyo Time Perth Time Kazakhstan

Search Results Page Search filters & settings

https://support.google.com/maps#topic=3092425

Google Image Search Be careful with Copyright restrictions!

Google Image Search Filter by usage rights, e.g. free to use or share. Why not use Britannica Image Quest http://www.lib.eduhk.hk/cgi-bin/WAMConnMgr?sid=quest

Britannica Image Quest http://www. lib. eduhk. hk/cgi-bin/WAMConnMgr

Search by image http://images.google.com

Find out where these places are

More Google Tricks Wildcard Phrase Search "Thomas * Edison" "Tsang * Sing" site:gov.hk Phrase Search "classroom management" "school health education" More Google tools – translate, images, videos, news, maps … and Google Scholar, Google Books, etc.

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com Google Scholar allows you to search only the more "academic" / "scholarly" contents of Google – books, journal articles, conference papers, public domain research databases with options suited for academic purposes not offered in standard Google like: Search by Article Title / Author / Journal Title Limit by Publication Years / Subject Areas Citation Searches, Related Articles Linking to EdUHK Library-Subscribed Online Resources by EdLINK Direct Export to RefWorks

Google Scholar To look for a specific article, simply enter the article title. If the article title is very general and it does not show up immediately, enclose the article title with double quotes, add the author's name and / or journal title / publication year E.g. Crisp, V. (2008). Exploring the nature of examiner thinking during the process of examination marking. Cambridge Journal of Education, 38(2), 247-264.

If EdLINK@EdUHK is displayed, it indicates that full text to the article may be available through Library-subscribed databases.

Google Scholar If EdLINK@EdUHK is displayed, it indicates that full text to the article may be available through Library-subscribed databases. Without EdLINK@EdUHK icon, you may still try searching the source title from the Library Catalogue to check whether we have a print version.

By default, EdLINK is turned on if you are using Google Scholar from on-campus computers. From off-campus, follow the instruction to turn on EdLINK option via the settings of Google Scholar.

Example: Click the EdLINK@EdUHK link to retrieve full text article

Google Scholar Of course, you can also use Google Scholar as a discovery tool and find relevant articles and books related to your research topic. Simply enter the key concepts of your topic with the more important keywords listed first and use double quotes for phrases: E.g. "inclusive education" elementary schools hong kong Quick limit options: Include citations Anytime / since …. (year)

By default: Include citation & patents; anytime http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html

Include citations only; since 2016

Set Preferences

Choose to import the citation(s) to RefWorks, EndNote or others

For computers on campus: EdLINK@EdUHK is activated by default. For computers off campus: search ‘The Education University of Hong Kong’ at ‘Library links’ and activate EdLINK ; then save the settings.

Import into RefWorks

Cite option below each record

Link to all other versions

Google Scholar: Cited by and more Use ‘Cited by’ or ‘Related articles’ to explore more similar articles

Advanced search

Options in Google Scholar Advanced Search Options in Google Scholar Where my words occur: Anywhere in the article In the title of the article

Set Search Alert

Google Scholar Author search (author:) – use the surname and initial of the given name and / or Christian name E.g. teacher education author:"lee jc" Title search (allintitle:) – restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the document title E.g. allintitle:"environmental education" effectiveness Dates (year) – can be a specific year or a range of years E.g. citizenship education year: 2012 – 2017

Google Books

Google Books - Full Text Searching http://books.google.com/ Notwithstanding the legal issues related to Google Books, it is a great research tool in itself Google not only scans but OCR's the text; obtain full text from its partners  making it possible to easily search for a sentence in the book E.g. "as the research findings will illustrate, effective inclusive education is about effective teaching and learning and whole-school policies"

Google Books Book come from its Partner Program (copyright holders like publishers, authors granting different levels of permission) and Library Project May or may not be able to view full text: Full view Limited Preview Snippet View No Preview Available http://books.google.com/googlebooks/screenshots.html

Advanced Book Search

But Google ≠ Everything There is no free lunch. Google is great but it doesn't own the Web – in particular the research materials and contents that it indexes; The Library already paid for a lot of e-journals, e-books, e-newspapers so that you can access free online – e.g. compare the Factiva and other free online newspapers; and our Britannica Image Quest And remember, still not everything is in electronic format or online – check out iSearch – our Intelligent One Stop Searching which includes both Library books, videos, music as well as journal articles So, if you only rely on Google, you are going to miss a lot.

iSearch: Intelligent One-Stop Searching Looking for scholarly journals from iSearch

E-Databases The Library has more than 250 e-databases of different subject areas: Academic Search Premier ERIC Factiva ProQuest Databases Scopus Social Sciences Citation Index ACI 學術引用文獻資料庫 CEPS 中文電子期刊服務 CNKI 中國知網 中國學位論文全文數據庫 … and more

Other Resources You Should Know Local ones: HKUL Digital Initiatives http://lib.hku.hk/database/ including Hong Kong Journals Online; Hong Kong Government Reports Online (1842-1941); Hong Kong Table of Contents Database; Hong Kong University Theses Online … CUHK Library Digital Initiative http://udi.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/ including Hong Kong Literature Database (HKLit); Index to Chinese Periodicals of Hong Kong (HKInChiP); Modern Chinese Literature Research Portal … Dissertations and Theses Collection (DTC) HK Public Libraries Digital Collection including the Old HK Newspapers Collection Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive – http://www.archive.org/

Why You Can't Trust Everything You Found on the Internet Evaluation Criteria: Who created it? Are they trustworthy? Are they who they say they are? Is it a personal web page or an organizational web page? When was it created and updated? Click on the related links – how many dead links are there? What are the target audience? Are there advertising on it? What is the tone and design of it? Are the contents objective? Who sponsored it? Something just doesn't add up? Too good to be true? Short Reading: Evaluating Sources in Harvard Guide to Using Sources: A Publication of the Harvard College Writing Program. http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup107786 How to Evaluate Website Content http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-overview/evaluating-websites

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