HKIEd Library
2013/14
Outline
 Google Basic
 More Google
 Google Scholar
 Google Books
 Google ≠Everything you Need
 Do we have a Trust Issue Here?
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Google Basics
 Upper case or lower case doesn't matter
 Word Order, Phrases – put phrases in double quotes; most
important words first
 kowloon city vs city kowloon vs "city kowloon"
 english speakers learning cantonese vs cantonese speaker learning
english
 Exclude some words – use minus sign
 chrome will find a lot of results about the web browser offered by
Google; use chrome -google to remove search results mentioning
Google
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Google Advanced Searches
 Reserved word: OR
 chinese american movies =
[chinese] and [american] and [movies]
 chinese OR american movies =
chinese OR american and movies
 Site search
 "university of education" site:gov.hk
 Overdue fines site:lib.ied.edu.hk
 Filetype Search
 unemployment rate hong kong japan singapore
filetype:xls
 ipad user guide filetype:PDF
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More Google Tricks
 Dictionary – define: blended learning
 Calculator – 23 * 85 - 20
 Conversion
 3259 seconds in hours
 10km in miles
 -10C in F
 Foreign Exchange
 hkd in cny
 4100 eur in hkd
Search features:
http://www.google.com.hk/help/features.html
http://www.google.com/intl/zh-TW/insidesearch/
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Try it yourself
Definition
 Define google
 Define
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Finding about Weather
 Weather Beijing
 weather Okinawa
Searching a specific file type:
 Google tips and filetype:pdf
 “academic writing” site:.edu.hk
Calculation
 23 * 85 - 20
 100*3.14-cos(83)=
Get number conversions
• Miles to km
• 100F in C (Fahrenheit -> Celsius)
Get currency conversions
• 1206 cny in hkd
• 6230 eur in hk
Get the time
• Time Tokyo
• Time Perth
• Time Kazakhstan
• Sunrise new zealand
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Refine your search
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Google Image Search
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Be careful with Copyright
restrictions! Why not use
Britannica Image Quest ?
http://www.lib.ied.edu.hk/cgi-bin/WAMConnMgr?sid=quest
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Britannica Image Quest
http://www.lib.ied.edu.hk/cgi-bin/WAMConnMgr?sid=quest
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Search by image
http://images.google.com
Note:
This feature is available on
Chrome and Firefox browser
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Find out where these places are
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More Google Tricks
 Wild Cards "*"
 "Hong Kong Institute of * Education"
 "Tsang * Sing" site:gov.hk
 More Google tools – translate, images, videos, news,
maps, blog search … and Google Scholar, Google
Books
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Google Scholar
 http://scholar.google.com
 Google Scholar allows you to search only the more
"academic" / "scholarly" contents of Google – books,
journal articles, conference papers, public domain research
databases with options suited for academic purposes not
offered in standard Google like:
 Search by Article Title / Author / Journal Title
 Limit by Publication Years / Subject Areas
 Citation Searches, Related Articles
 Linking to HKIEd Library-Subscribed Online Resources by
EdLink
 Direct Export to RefWorks
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Google Scholar
 To look for a specific article, simply enter the article
title. If the article title is very general and it does
not show up immediately, enclose the article title
with double quotes, add the author's name and / or
journal title / publication year
 E.g. Crisp, Victoria (2008) "Exploring the nature of
examiner thinking during the process of examination
marking". Cambridge Journal of Education. 38(2):247 264.
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If EdLINK@HKIEd is displayed,
it indicates that full text to the
article may be available through
Library-subscribed databases.
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Google Scholar
 If EdLINK@HKIEd is displayed, it indicates that
full text to the article may be available through
Library-subscribed databases.
 If Check EdLINK is displayed, generally we don't
have online full text to the specific issue. You may
still click it – sometimes we may have a print
version.
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Google Scholar
 Of course, you can also use Google Scholar as a
discovery tool and find relevant articles and books
related to your research topic. Simply enter the key
concepts of your topic with the more important
keywords listed first and use double quotes for phrases:
 E.g. "inclusive education" elementary schools hong kong
 Quick limit options:
 Include citations / at least summaries
 Anytime / since …. (year)
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By default: Include citation & patents; anytime
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Include citations only;
since 2013
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Set Preferences
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Choose to export
the citation to
RefWorks
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For computers on campus:
EdLINK@HKIEd is activated by
default.
For computers off campus:
search “hong kong” at “Library
Links” and activate EdLINK; then
Save Preferences
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Import into RefWorks
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Advanced search
Advanced Scholar Search
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Advanced Scholar Search
Options
Where my words occur:
•Anywhere in the article
•In the title of the article
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Set search alert
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Google Scholar
 Author Search (author:) – use the surname and initial
of the given name and / or Christian name
 E.g. teacher education author:“lee jc"
 Journal / publication title search
 E.g. citizenship education (publication = moral
education)
 Dates (year) – can be a specific year or a range of years
 E.g. citizenship education year: 2005 – 2007
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Google Scholar Cited by …
Related articles
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Google Books
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Google Books
 http://books.google.com/
 Notwithstanding the legal issues related to Google
Books, it is a great research tool in itself
 Google not only scans but OCR's the text; obtain full
text from its partners  making it possible to easily
search for a sentence in the book
 E.g. "social media forces libraries to act as if they exist
an individual"
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Google Books
 Book come from its Partner Program (copyright
holders like publishers, authors granting different
levels of permission) and Library Project
 May or may not be able to view full text:
 Full view
 Snippet View
 Limited Preview
 No Preview
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You can browse: Different Kinds of Books and Magazines Available
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Google Books – Many Search Options
available in the personal acount
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But Google ≠Everything
 There is no free lunch. Google is great but it doesn't own
the Web – in particular the research materials and contents
that it indexes;
 The Library already paid for a lot of e-journals, e-books, enewspapers so that you can access free online – e.g.
compare the Library PressDisplay and other free online
newspapers; and our Britannica Image Quest
 And remember, still not everything is in electronic format
or online – check out iSearch – our Intelligent one-stop
Searching which includes both Library books, videos,
music as well as journal articles
 So, if you only rely on Google, you are going to miss a lot.
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iSearch: Intelligent One-Stop Searching
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Other Resources You Should Know
 Local ones:
 HKU Digital Initiatives http://lib.hku.hk/database/ including Hong
Kong Journals Online; Hong Kong Government Reports Online
(1842-1941); Hong Kong Table of Contents Database; Hong Kong
University Theses Online …
 Hong Kong Literature Database (HKLit); Index to Chinese
Periodicals of Hong Kong (HKInChiP); Modern Chinese Literature
Research Portal; CUHK ULS E-Journal Initiatives
 Dissertations and Theses Collection (DTC)
 HK Public Libraries Digital Collections including the Old HK
Newspaper Project
 Wayback machine from the Internet Archive –
http://www.archive.org/
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Why You Can't Trust Everything You
Found on the Internet
 Evaluation Criteria:
 Who created it? Are they trustworthy? Are they who they say they
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are? Is it a personal web page or an organizational web page?
When was it created and updated? Click on the related links – how
many dead links are there?
What are the target audience? Are there advertising on it?
What is the tone and design of it?
Are the contents objective? Who sponsored it?
Something just doesn't add up? Too good to be true?
 Short Reading:
 Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
 Evaluating Sources in Harvard Guide to Using Sources: A Publication of the
Harvard College Writing Program.
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&tabgroupid=icb.tab
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