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Advanced Searching With Google

Copy of Advanced Searching Shortcuts

Use this Handy "Cheat Sheet"

It shows you many of the best shortcuts and how to achieve them, both on Google's main page, and via the Advanced Search page!

Advanced Searching NETS

Activity

Think you know everything about Google? Check out this activity by Alan November...you might be surprised!


Tips & Tricks for Advanced Searching in Google

Video Sections

  • Reasons NOT to search a question in Google

  • Exact Phrase Search ("") --- 3:16

  • Synonym Search (OR) ---5:59

  • NOT Search (-) --- 7:48

  • Date Search --- 8:57

  • Domain Search (Site:) --- 9:53

  • Reminders --- 13:16

Effective Searching in Databases

Additional periodicals, primary sources, and videos are available here. You can limit by Lexile (reading difficulty) or Source Type.

EXPLORA TUTORIAL

Instructional Video

Start here! Go to Browse Issues and locate your topic by doing a CTRL + F. Once on the topic portal, read the overview article by clicking on the blue button that says, "Read More".

Gale Tutorial

To BROWSE for a topic, find an area of the world via Explore the Regions on the front page. Pick a country in that area. Under History & Issues, select Contemporary Issues.

ABC-CLIO TUTORIAL

Effective Searching in Scholarly Databases

Academic Search Premier Tutorial

When using EBSCO's Academic Search Premier, remember to limit to FULL TEXT! Once in an article, grab the permalink as well as the citation. These are located along the right hand side of the document.

JSTOR Tutorial

After you have found an article in JSTOR, the easiest way to read it is to download the PDF. The citation with URL are located to the left side of the PDF document.

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