The Discovery Service works a lot like Google, except it only searches high quality academic content, can be told to only find content that you can read in full online, and has a treasure trove of features and tools to …
Google Web Search is the most popular search engine at the moment by some margin and it is certainly excellent at finding everyday information reliably and quickly. What few people notice is that, under the hood, Google Web Search is …
Google Scholar is not Google Web search Most people who search Google Scholar assume that it is a cut-down version of Google Web search that shows only academic content. In fact, Google Scholar is an entirely separate database with a …
In my previous post, I outlined how to go about searching a database such as the EBSCO Discovery Service (“Discovery”) and refining your search results to make it easier to pick out the articles or ebooks you want to download …
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Almost everyone has used Google to find information online and academic information resources are fundamentally very similar. The difference between a simple Google search and finding precisely what you want in Discovery, ebook platforms or subject-specific resources is that to …
