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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.Also look at the How To Research box in the Writing section of Independent Learning.
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Dan Russell - A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sense-making and information foraging. Check this regularly for new information.
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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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video - 10min - a good starting point for your searches
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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.