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Latin I Portfolio Project: The Gods and Goddesses of Roman and Greek Mythology: Conducting Online Research

CHECKLIST: USING QUALITY RESEARCH SOURCES

SWEET SEARCH

Sweet Search is a search engine designed for students featuring results that have been reviewed by a team of educators and librarians. You are still responsible for checking the source credentials. NOTE: To locate your search results be sure to scroll past the initial sources labeled "Ad."

KEYWORD SEARCHING

Strategic keyword searching is also important with Internet research. For ideas watch this Using Keywords video from the University of Houston Libraries.

USE GOOGLE SEARCH MORE EFFICIENTLY

There are many ways to use Google Search more efficiently. See below for some Google search strategies.

.EDU or .GOV GOOGLE SEARCH

Google Search with a Colon: Set up your search with a colon to search specific website domains. For example, if you type site:edu then your search terms or site:gov then your search terms into the Google search bar, the search results will only come from .edu sites such as universities and schools or .gov sites such as U.S. government agencies and institutions.

Google Web Search  
 

SEARCH GOOGLE BOOKS

Google Book Search

Google Books searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text, and stored in its digital database. Many results are not full text but you can often skim a few pages and find books that you could locate in libraries.

SEARCH GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Google Scholar Search

Google Scholar is a web search engine that broadly searches for scholarly literature. The results are not always full text.