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Bachelor of Applied Research (Honours) Guide: Internet Resources

This guide supports the Bachelor of Applied Research (Honours) course

Searching the Internet

Searching the Internet can be a great place to search, but it can be overwhelming, and you need to be sure you're using the best sources.

Learn how to search the Internet effectively:

Why use Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine for scholarly information. It makes available information records that an author, university repository, or journal publisher have chosen to list. It is useful because it searches across many resources and returns many resource types, including journal articles and book chapters, though it is important to note that results are not always from academic-quality sources. Google Scholar will also return results to resources you do have access to via the Library, and those you do not.

Search strategies

Search for an exact phrase, or match

Put your search terms in quotation marks

"climate change"
Exclude a word from your search

Put a dash - before any word you want to exclude

Port corrosion -phone
Search within a range of numbers

Use two periods .. between the numbers to return results within that range

sea temperature 2012..2017
Search within a website

Use site: to search within a particular web address or to limit your results to a domain type

site: abs.gov.au

site:.edu
Limit by geographical area or time frame Use the Google Tools drop down options to limit to Australian results and/or select a time frame for your results.

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