Event

Newcomers - Google for Academic Research

This lunchtime session is part of the NEwComERs - Network for Early Career Essex Researchers one week training programme and will give you some tips and tricks on how to use Google and Google Scholar more effectively as a researcher.

  • Wed 10 Jan 18

    13:00 - 14:00

  • Colchester Campus

    EBS 2.68

  • Event speaker

    Greg Cadge

  • Event type

    Workshops, training and support
    Newcomers (Network for Early Career Essex Researchers): Research Week

  • Event organiser

    Library

  • Contact details

    Newcomers

This session will cover how to search Google and Google Scholar effectively. Whilst caution is often given to the merits of using Google for academic research, there exists an increasing amount of legitimate information that can be accessed via search engines. The challenge is being able to find this information amongst the huge number of results that a search returns.

This session will look at how you can target and filter your search results to access the most relevant research. You will gain an understanding of how different search engines work and how you can use advanced search techniques to refine your searches to return focused results.

 

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