Using Google Effectively for Academic Research HKIEd Library

Using Google Effectively for Academic Research HKIEd Library Oct 2010

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

But First … 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, ebooks, e-newspapers so that you can access free online – e. g. compare the Library Press. Display and other free online newspapers; And remember, still not everything is in electronic format or online; So, if you only rely on Google, you are going to miss a lot. 3

Google Basics www. google. com or www. google. com. hk? Not always the same: try institute of education in Google and Google HK Try cheung man in Google HK (Traditional Chinese) Word Order, Phrases – put phrases in double quotes; most important words first Hong Kong vs Kong Hong "Hong Kong Institute of Education" vs Hong Kong Institute of Education Exclude some words – use minus sign civic -car -honda 4

Google Advanced Searches upper case and lower case generally do not matter except for OR trick or treat trick OR treat Site search "university of education" site: gov. hk Overdue fines site: lib. ied. edu. hk Filetype Search "unemployment rate" hong kong japan singapore filetype: xls 5

More Google Tricks http: //www. google. com. hk/help/features. html Dictionary – define: democracy Calculator – 23 * 85 – 20 Conversion 3259 seconds in hours 公曆 1997/7/1 2010年清明(for www. google. com. hk ) 10 km in miles -10 C in F Foreign Exchange 9203 yen in hk$ 6

More Options 7

E. g. - Search in News, in Blogs, … - Limit by time - Special views / focus - Related searches - Something different (but related) 8

Related Searches

Sites with images 10

Wonder Wheel (Related Searches) 11

More Google Tricks Wild Cards "*" "Hong Kong Institute of * Education" "Tsang * Shing" site: gov. hk Google Language Tools / Translate 12

E. g. Can't read French? 13

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More Google Tools More Google tools – translate, images, videos, news, maps, blog search … and Google Scholar, Google Books 15

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 HKIEd Library-Subscribed Online Resources by Ed. Link Direct Export to Ref. Works 16

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, Victoria (2008) "Exploring the nature of examiner thinking during the process of examination marking". Cambridge Journal of Education. 38(2): 247 - 264. 17

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Google Scholar If Ed. LINK@HKIEd is displayed, it indicates that full text to the article may be available through Library-subscribed databases. If Check Ed. LINK is displayed, generally we don't have online full text to the specific issue. You may still click it – sometimes we may have a print version. 19

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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 / at least summaries Anytime / since …. (year) 21

Include citation; anytime 22

At least summaries; since 2005 23

Scholar Preferences 24

For computers on campus: Ed. LINK@HKIEd is activated by default. For computers off campus: search “hong kong” at “Library Links” and activate Ed. LINK; then Save Preferences 25

You can also choose to export the citation to Ref. Works or End. Note 26

Import into Ref. Works 27

Create Email Alert 28

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Google received a request to start sending Scholar Alerts to shuleung@ied. edu. hk for the query: [ "inclusive education" elementary schools hong kong ]; Articles excluding patents Click to confirm this request: http: //scholar. google. com/scholar_alerts? update_op=confirm_alert&hl=en&alert_id=uk. Cxv. IDk. W 60 J&email_for_op= shuleung%40 ied. edu. hk Click to cancel this request: http: //scholar. google. com/scholar_alerts? view_op=cancel_alert_options&hl=en&alert_id=uk. Cxv. IDk. W 60 J&email_for _op=shuleung%40 ied. edu. hk Thanks, The Google Scholar Team 30

Advanced Scholar Search 31

Advanced Scholar Search Options 32

To Search by Article Title Where my words occur: • Anywhere in the article • In the title of the article 33

Google Scholar Author Search (author: ) – use the surname and initial of the given name and / or Christian name E. g. citizenship education author: "ja banks" Journal / publication title search E. g. citizenship education (publication = moral education) Dates (year) – can be a specific year or a range of years E. g. citizenship education (year: 2005 – 2007) 34

Advanced Scholar Search Restrict to desired subject areas 35

Example: Swine flu Hong Kong All subjects = 6, 760 hits Business / Econ only = 199 hits 36

Google Scholar Cited by … 37

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Google Scholar: Related Articles 39

Google Books 40

Google Books 41

Google Books 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" 42

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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 Snippet View Limited Preview No Preview 44

You can browse: Different Kinds of Books and Magazines Available 45

Google Books – Many Search Options 46

Example: All words: education reform hong kong Limited preview and full view Subject: education Date: 2005 47

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But Google ≠Everything Always Remember the Library is there for you! 49

Other Resources You Should Know Scirus – http: //www. scirus. com/ Scirus ETD Search of NDLTD – http: //www. ndltd. org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-search Wayback machine from the Internet Archive – http: //www. archive. org/ IPL 2: http: //www. ipl. org/ 50

Other Resources You Should Know Local ones: HKU 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 … Hong Kong Literature Database (HKLit); Index to Chinese Periodicals of Hong Kong (HKIn. Chi. P); Modern Chinese Literature Research Portal; CUHK ULS E-Journal Initiatives Dissertations and Theses Collection (DTC) HK Public Libraries Digital Initiatives including the Old HK Newspaper Project 51

Do we have a Trust Issue Here? Check out http: //www. martinlutherking. org/ - who hosted this web site? Have you heard of the patented Pigeon. Rank technology of Google? Check out http: //www. google. com/technology/pigeonrank. html And how about the Wikipedia? 52

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? Worksheets for Students and more detailed discussion: http: //school. discoveryeducation. com/schrockguide/eval. html http: //www. lib. berkeley. edu/Teaching. Lib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate. html 53

Thank You! Q & A 54