Research by Subject: Learning Design & Technology: Tips for Searching Google, Scholar, Books, News & Images

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Google search tips

Capitalize search operators/boolean connectors AND, OR
- Example: zika AND "birth defects"
To exclude words use a dash or minus sign (-) before a word with multiple meanings or to exclude a site
- Example: jaguar speed -car, pandas-site:wikipedia.org
To search for an exact phrase and make sure that you are only returning results that have those exact words in the same words in same order but quotation marks around the phrase
- Example: “your phrase in double quotations”
When you’re not certain if you are looking for a compound word or two words search for both using the OR operator and putting both terms within parentheses
- (“health care” OR healthcare)
wildcard - placeholder for any unknown term (word or number)
- "evidence based" ** practice
number range - results contain numbers in the range
- 1990..1999 AND ("native american" OR "american indian") AND poverty
terms in the document title
- intitle:”human trafficking”

Use the Cited by link to to see newer papers that reference the citation.

On your Google Scholar results page, click Cited by to see articles that have cited your reference.
Entries with [Citation] have been extracted from bibliographies of articles and may not have complete bibliographic information.

No spaces between the limit and search terms.

define:hipster	limits results to pages with definitions
filetype:pdf AND ebola	limits pages with specified file type (pdf, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, dwf, ps, kml, kmz, swf)
site:cdc.gov AND ebola	limits results to pages from the domain
info:cdc.gov	results included cached version of page, pages that link to site, similar pages
link:cdc.gov	pages that link to the page
related:cdc.gov	pages that are similar

Books

Blogs

News & News Archive

Google search box > yourterms > News for current computer generated headlines
Google search box > yourterms > News > Search tools > Recent > Custom range for articles from 2003
Google search box > yourterms > News > Search tools > Archives for articles prior to 2003
Go to news.google.com for top headlines in 11 categories and 70+ regional editions
Go to news.google.com > down arrow for Advanced news search for more search options

Images

Google search box > Images > Search tools for size, color type, time, usage rights
Go to images.google.com > Settings > Advanced search for size, color type, time, usage rights
Go to images.google.com > Camera icon > Search by image by url or uploading an image, a good way to check for appropriate use