Category Archives: Google

Internet skills for uni @ RMIT University: searching versus surfing

Improve your Internet searching skills! Learn how to search the Internet more efficiently and how to find reliable web resources for university assignments using Advanced Google and Google Scholar. Classes are conducted in Weeks 2 & 3 of Semester two. … Continue reading

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Useful new Google features

Google has introduced some useful features to their search results page. After searching in Google you will notice a link to “Show options/Hide options” at the top of the page (seems to work on google.com but not yet google.com.au). One … Continue reading

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Google Scholar and library resources

Many within the School will know about Google Scholar for accessing scholarly resources. What is sometimes not realised is that when you access items via Google Scholar you are often doing so via the Library’s paid subscriptions. The publishers and other … Continue reading

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Academic study and the use of internet sites

I am running classes for Foundation Studies at the moment on the evaluation of internet sites. Students brainstorm criteria to use for evaluating the scholarly suitability of internet sites and then use that criteria to make judgements about several example … Continue reading

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