Using Google Effectively for Academic Research Ed UHK

Using Google Effectively for Academic Research Ed. UHK Library Oct 2017

Outline Google Basic More Google Scholar Google Books Google ≠ Everything you Need Do we have a Trust Issue Here? 2

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" 3

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 4

More on Advanced Search https: //www. google. com/advanced_search 5

Safe. Search Filters Block explicit results on Google using Safe. Search https: //support. google. com/websearch/answer/510 6

Cached Links in Search Results https: //support. google. com/ websearch/answer/1687222 7

More Tricks to Find Quick Answers Get definitions – define: bystander effect Calculator – 23*85 -20 Conversion 3259 seconds in hours 10 km in miles -10 C 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 8

Try it yourself Definition Get number conversions 100 miles in km Define cyberbullying Define supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 100 F in C (Fahrenheit -> Celsius) Finding about Weather Beijing Weather Okinawa Searching a specific file type or a particular types of site: Google tips filetype: pdf “academic writing” site: edu. hk Get currency conversions 1206 cny in hkd 6230 eur in hkd Get the time Time Tokyo Time Perth Time Kazakhstan Calculation 23*85 -20= 100*3. 14 -cos(83)= 9

Search Results Page Search filters & settings 10

https: //support. google. com/ maps#topic=3092425 11

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Google Image Search Be careful with Copyright restrictions! 13

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/WAMConn. Mgr? sid=quest 14

Britannica Image Quest http: //www. lib. eduhk. hk/cgi-bin/WAMConn. Mgr? sid=quest 15

Search by image http: //images. google. com 16

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Find out where these places are 18

More Google Tricks Wildcard "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. 19

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 Ed. UHK Library-Subscribed Online Resources by Ed. LINK Direct Export to Ref. Works 20

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. 21

If Ed. LINK@Ed. UHK is displayed, it indicates that full text to the article may be available through Library-subscribed databases. 22

Google Scholar If Ed. LINK@Ed. UHK. Primo is displayed, it indicates that full text to the article may be available through Library-subscribed databases. Without Ed. LINK@Ed. UHK. Primo icon, you may still try searching the source title from the Library Catalogue to check whether we have a print version. 23

By default, Ed. LINK is turned on if you are using Google Scholar from on-campus computers. From off-campus, follow the instruction to turn on Ed. LINK option via the settings of Google Scholar. 24

Example: Click the Ed. LINK@Ed. UHK. Primo link to retrieve full text article 25

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) 26

By default: Include citation & patents; anytime 27

Include citations only; since 2016 28

Set Preferences 29

Choose to import the citation(s) to Ref. Works, End. Note or others 30

Import into Ref. Works 31

Cite option below each record 32

Link to all other versions 33

Google Scholar: Cited by and more Use ‘Cited by’ or ‘Related articles’ to explore more similar articles 34

Advanced search 35

Advanced Search Options in Google Scholar Where my words occur: • Anywhere in the article • In the title of the article 36

Set Search Alert 37

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 38

Google Books 39

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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" 41

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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 43

Advanced Book Search 44

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, enewspapers 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 i. Search – 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. 45

i. Search: Intelligent One-Stop Searching Looking for scholarly journals from i. Search 46

E-Databases The Library has more than 250 e-databases of different subject areas: Ø Ø Ø Academic Search Ultimate ERIC Factiva Pro. Quest 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 漢籍電子文獻資料庫 … and more 47

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 (HKIn. Chi. P); 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/ 48

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. do? keyword=k 70847&tabgroupid=icb. tabgrou p 107786 How to Evaluate Website Content http: //www. ed. ac. uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/findingresources/library-databases/databases-overview/evaluating-websites 49

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