Building a Library Research Strategy

This page provides tips and techniques for searching the Internet.

• Limit searches to domains 
• Search exact phrases
• Search for terms only in a part of a document, like the title
• To search specific languages or in certain regions
• Maintain better control over the types of results you get
• To see a demonstration of what it looks like, WATCH THIS VIDEO TUTORIAL

• Search academic articles

Use Google Basic Search Help

Use Google Search Operators

From Wayne State University Libraries/ This SIFT video was adapted from "Check, Please!" (Caulfield). This course exists at [http://lessons.checkplease.cc]

Sometimes websites can provide excellent resources to support your ideas. Make sure you are checking the credibility of the internet source by checking with your instructor, a librarian, or by using tools for evaluating sources.

The following are a few reliable internet sources to try:

• Allsides - Balanced news/ media bias 
• Brookings Institution - Non-profit Public Policy. Researches societal issues.
• Data.gov - Open data from the U.S. Government
• Futurity - Published research from top universities
• OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) - Provides evidence-based international data on a range of global issues 
• Pew Research - Nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.
• Snopes.com - Fact checking site
• World Factbook from the CIA - Provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.