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This box contains useful links and instructions on how to get the most from your internet searches. If you are intending to study at university in Australia, this will be a necessary skill and the sooner you start practising, the better you will be at locating good quality resources in a short time.-
Use AND, OR, and NOT to limit your search in a database. Watch this video for help on how to do this (and also use brackets or parentheses).
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English is a highly word-order specific language. Watch this short one minute video to see how word order affects your searches. Even in Google, your word choices are important.
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Science Direct is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters in science but also in business, humanities, etc. Please note: on computers at the Institute of Languages, you can access articles for free. At home, you may need to pay for articles.
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This database search tool is FREE to use if you use a computer at UNSW Institute of Languages. You may not be able to access this from your home computer.
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WARNING - this database is NOT an Academic peer-reviewed database and so cannot be used as a primary source of information. However, it can give general information and can be a starting point for your research.
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You can save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search & ranking to quickly find just the one you want - at any time and from anywhere. Click on link for more information and instructions.
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GOOGLE Scholar indexes scholarly, peer-reviewed academic papers, journals, theses, books, and court opinions. These are materials that students usually won't find through Google.com, Bing, or Yahoo search. Google Scholar alerts notify students when new materials related to their search queries appear on Google Scholar. You need a Google account to use this ALERT service.