LibGuides: COM 111: Public Speaking (Previously SPE 111): Finding Sources

How to Do Advanced Google Searching

GO BEYOND A BASIC GOOGLE SEARCH!

To retrieve particular types of sites. Add this to the end of your search:

site:.org Finds (mostly) non-profit websites

site:.gov Finds government websites

site:.edu Finds college & university websites

Example:

electric car environmental impact site:.org

cybersecurity for small businesses site:.gov

preventing childhood obesity site:.edu

Give it a try! Visit Google.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study. It provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for academic research including journal articles, books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and other scholarly material. Make sure you visit Settings and set Oregon Tech as your library so you have easier access to articles for free.

Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Provides differing points of view on current issues. Arranged in a pro and con format. Sources include reference material, commentaries and viewpoints from experts, periodical and news articles, primary sources, statistics, and multimedia.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Includes the weekly 44 issues per year of CQ Researcher, which provides a balanced, in-depth analysis of contemporary, controversial topics of the day. Each issue is written by a veteran journalist, and includes pro and con arguments by experts, a chronology, and annotated bibliography. Covers from 1991 present.

Pew Research Center
Conducts research and public opinion polls on a wide range of topics.

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