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Boolean OperatorsBroaden or narrow your results
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TruncationUse an asterisk (*) to replace part of a word
Use a question mark (?) to substitute one letter within a word
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Quotation MarksRetrieve more specific results
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SynonymsUse synonyms to explore results
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Adapted from Charles Stuart University Library
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Look to the right and enter your publication range, click Owned and subscribed to by my library, search. You'll now have a list of results that you can further refine with the facets on the left.
.com Commercial site. The information provided by commercial interests is generally going to shed a positive light on the product it promotes. While this information might not necessarily be false, you might be getting only part of the picture. Remember, there's a monetary incentive behind every commercial site in providing you with information, whether it is for good public relations or to sell you a product outright.
.edu Educational institution. Sites using this domain name are schools ranging from kindergarten to higher education. If you take a look at your school's URL you'll notice that it ends with the domain .edu. Information from sites within this domain must be examined very carefully. If it is from a department or research center at an educational institution, it can generally be taken as credible. However, students' personal Web sites are not usually monitored by the school even though they are on the school's server and use the .edu domain.
.gov Government. If you come across a site with this domain, then you're viewing a federal government site. All branches of the United States federal government use this domain. Information such as Census statistics, Congressional hearings, and Supreme Court rulings would be included in sites with this domain. The information is considered to be from a credible source. See also Internet country domains list / Country Internet codes / TLDs - World Standards.
.org Traditionally a non-profit organization. Organizations such as the American Red Cross or PBS (Public Broadcasting System) use this domain suffix. Generally, the information in these types of sites is credible and unbiased, but there are examples of organizations that strongly advocate specific points of view over others, such as the National Right to Life Committee and Planned Parenthood. You want to give this domain scrutiny. Some commercial interests might be the ultimate sponsors of a site with this suffix.
.mil Military. This domain suffix is used by the various branches of the Armed Forces of the United States.
.net Network. You might find any kind of site under this domain suffix. It acts as a catch-all for sites that don't fit into any of the preceding domain suffixes. Information from these sites should be given careful scrutiny.
Adapted from University of South Carolina Upstate Library, Evaluating Information, URL & What it can tell you, Domain Suffix
WebCrawler A meta-search tool, combining results from different search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask, Live Search, and others.
Google Scholar Specialized search tool that focuses primarily on information from scholarly and peer-reviewed sources.
WolframAlpha A computational search engine that generates answers to factual queries using data sets.
Openverse Searches openly licensed images from around the internet.
RefSeek A web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone.
General search engines include Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google.
Advanced search: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo