{"id":2503,"date":"2021-10-07T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/?page_id=2503"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T21:56:40","slug":"search-tips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/research-tips\/search-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Learn to Google better!<\/h1>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/files\/2021\/03\/Search-on-Google-Like-a-Boss.pdf\">Maximize Your Search Tips and Tricks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and use\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/files\/2021\/03\/Boolean-Search-Commands.pdf\">Boolean Search Commands<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tips for performing Advanced searches on Google can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch\/answer\/35890?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=3081620\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and other tips for refining your web searches can be found\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch\/answer\/2466433?hl=en\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>General Research Tips:<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/help.library.ubc.ca\/\">UBC Library Research Help Page<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Includes links to tools like assignment calculators, citation management software comparisons and help guides,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/guides.library.ubc.ca\/ld.php?content_id=33891086\">research paper prep sheets<\/a>, search tips, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unpaywall.org\/\">Unpaywall.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Some journal databases only let you read the abstract of an article for free but require a paid login to access the full-text (this is a paywall).\u00a0 This organisation seeks out open source, legal copies of journal articles so you can read the full text.\u00a0 Their main page lists the open source journals they link to, but they also have a browser extension available for Chrome that will tell you if an unpaywalled version available of the article you\u2019re looking at in the browser.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/unpaywall\/iplffkdpngmdjhlpjmppncnlhomiipha\">https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/unpaywall\/iplffkdpngmdjhlpjmppncnlhomiipha<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn to Google better! Maximize Your Search Tips and Tricks and use\u00a0Boolean Search Commands Tips for performing Advanced searches on Google can be found\u00a0here\u00a0and other tips for refining your web searches can be found\u00a0here. General Research Tips: UBC Library Research <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/research-tips\/search-tips\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6197,"featured_media":0,"parent":913,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503\/revisions\/2506"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}