{"id":397,"date":"2012-08-22T16:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T00:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:17:15","slug":"internet-search-tips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/internet-search-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 29, 2024<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Start with the school library databases &amp; online resources and print materials<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Also check the public library databases &amp; books<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When searching the internet\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use specific search terms<\/li>\n<li>put the most important search terms first<\/li>\n<li>use common terms (e.g. instead of saying<\/li>\n<li>use <strong>~<\/strong> to look for similar terms ==&gt; ~impacts (looks for similar terms such as effects, consequences as well)<\/li>\n<li>use <b>&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;<\/b>\u00a0for exact phrases \u00a0==&gt; &#8220;industrial revolution&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>use &#8211; before a word to remove it from search results ==&gt; \u00a0london -england<\/li>\n<li>search a specific domain name ==&gt;\u00a0<strong>site:.edu<\/strong> (only searches .edu sites)<\/li>\n<li>use Boolean operators\n<ul>\n<li>and ==&gt; Vancouver and tourism (looks for both)<\/li>\n<li>or ==&gt; quebec or Ontario (looks for either one)<\/li>\n<li>not ==&gt; college not university \u00a0(looks for college NOT university)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gbkSpuv0cz\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaltattoo.ubc.ca\/\">Home Page<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Home Page&#8221; &#8212; Digital Tattoo\" src=\"https:\/\/digitaltattoo.ubc.ca\/?embed=true#?secret=2V0jtnc5Tj#?secret=gbkSpuv0cz\" data-secret=\"gbkSpuv0cz\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 29, 2024 Start with the school library databases &amp; online resources and print materials Also check the public library databases &amp; books When searching the internet\u2026 use specific search terms put the most important search terms first use common terms (e.g. instead of saying use ~ to look for similar terms ==&gt; ~impacts (looks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/internet-search-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9557,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions\/9557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}