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Search Strategies for finding academic information using the Internet/Google:

• Use as few words as possible to begin your search. Use the key concepts from your topic/thesis statement.  
• Searching by filetype pdf is often an effective strategy to find relevant articles and reports.
• You can limit your search to specific domains by using filetype:.edu, .org, etc. 
• You can limit your results to a certain time of publication (last 24 hours, week, month, year, etc) by using tools.

The following chart created by B Ireland-Symonds describes some of these and additional Google search tips:

Advanced Search 
If you don’t want to remember all of the options you can use in the search box to create a search statement, you can do most of the things mentioned above using the “Advanced Search” in Google. To access advanced search from a result page, click on “Settings” under the search box.  If you haven’t yet performed a search in Google, the settings option is located at the bottom right of the page. From the menu that appears, click “Advanced Search.”  On the following page (example below) you can construct a search by simply filling in the boxes.  Here you can specify if you want:

• all these words searched (all words entered in the box must appear in the results)
• this exact word or phrase (like using quotation marks)
• any of these words (any, not all, of the words entered in the box can appear in the results)
• none of these words (if you want words removed from the results, like using the minus sign)   

Further down the page, note that you can also specify if you want to limit your search to a particular domain (.edu, .gov, etc.), or a particular website (bakersfieldcollege.edu).  Here you can also specify if you want to view only a certain type of document, such as an MS Word document or a PDF document.  

Type “scholar” in the Google search box and the first or second result will be Google Scholar.  Clicking the link will take you to the Google Scholar website.  Most of the search strategies discussed above will work in Google Scholar.  Here Google has included citations for millions of scholarly articles from academic publishers worldwide.  An article citation consists of information about the article (title, author, publisher), but doesn’t include the entire article, or full text.  In some instances you will have access to the full text of the articles retrieved.  However, most of the time article links will take you to a publisher website requesting login credentials or payment to use the article, so don’t anticipate finding an abundance of free, full text in Google Scholar.  As a general rule, if a link is found on the main, left portion of the page, you won’t have access to full text (there are exceptions to this).  If the link is on the right side of the page, next to the citation, you will probably have access to the full text – again there are exceptions.  You can increase your chances of finding full text by going to the Google Scholar settings, then clicking “Library Links” on the left side of the screen. On the next screen, search for Bakersfield College, make sure the box that appears next to Bakersfield College is checked, then save.

Now when you search, if an article is available in full text in any of the databases that BC subscribes to, you’ll see a link to the right of the article “Full Text@BC.”  Click the link and it will take you to the full text article in the correct database.  When doing this from off-campus, be prepared to enter your ID number when prompted.