Learn the secrets of finding academic research fast with Google and Google Scholar and take your research paper writing to the next level!
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Have you spent countless hours trying to find research for your literature review that is of an academic quality, peer reviewed, up-to-date, relevant and reliable?
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Are you tired of trying to learn how to search complicated academic databases?
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Do you write a lot of research papers and have to evidence a range of sources?
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Do you want to save time when conducting your literature search?
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Have you wondered if there is an easier way to find research using Google?
Then join me today and let’s make the process of literature searching easy with this course designed just for you!
Content and Overview
This brand-new course will teach you the winning tips and tricks to use Google for your research paper. From the very basics of how to access and use Google’s advanced search, super quick command search techniques and power user tips to supercharge your research.
We pretty much cover it all so that the next time you need to find research for your research paper writing you will have the knowledge and practical skills you need find research fast.
We are going to teach you the skills that will allow you spend less time worrying about finding research and more time writing up your paper.
I designed this course to be easily understood by everyone, there are no requirements to join the course, we only ask that you come open minded and ready to learn.
By the end of this course, you’ll know how to use Google and Google Scholar to help you become a productive and successful researcher.
See you inside the course!
Google Commands
Google Advanced Search
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5What are Google Commands, why and how you should use them
This cheat sheet lists all of the Google commands (with examples) covered in the course. Open now and save for future reference.
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6Find a file type
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7Search an entire website/domain search
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8Title search (single word)
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9Title search (multiple words)
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10Search for a specific term
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11Search for pages that include a term in the URL
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12Find websites that are similar in content
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13Define a keyword or topic
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14Search for a phrase
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15Find one or more terms (broaden your search)
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16How to combine terms using AND
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17Exlcude words from your search
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18Exclude a website or domain from your results
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19Conducting a partial search (to identify more search terms)
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20Find documents specific to a year range
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21Find a definition of a word
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22Find related websites
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23Find a synonym of a word
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24Accessing the Google cache
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25Verbatim searching
Google Scholar
Google Scholar commands
Google Scholar Advanced Search
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28Search for a specific term in text:
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29Search for a single word in the title intitle:
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30Search multiple words in the title allintitle:
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31Search for a phrase
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32Boolean OR: Find more keywords
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33Boolean AND: Join keywords together
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34Boolean NOT: Exclude words from your search
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35Conducting a partial search (to identify more search terms)
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36Find documents specific to a year range
Use a command to limit your results to certain years or use the side bar controls to adjust the year range after you have performed a search.
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37Search for an author
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38Example search - put into practice what we have learnt
Become a Google Scholar Power User
Get access to research papers for free
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41Discover new research using citation searching
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42Discover new research using related article search
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43How to setup alerts to stay up to date with the latest research
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44How to organize your Google Scholar library
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45How to automatically generate citations for your reference list or bibliography
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46Customizing your search preferences
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47Get better results by searching in incognito mode