FYS 207: Illuminating the Code of Dance (Fall 2020): Home

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• Search Operators

  Commands Google Search recognizes that can limit search results. One of the many tips you will find on the this page: you can type in site:.edu and limit to .edu domains. The domain (i.e. .com) can tell you a lot about a website. Sites can be .com (commercial), .edu (academic institutions), .gov (governmental), .mil (military), or .org (organization - usually non-commercial). Of these, .edu and .gov sites are the most trustworthy.

• Advanced Search

  One of the many tips you will find on the Google Search Help Page: you can limit the date range of items that your search locates

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar searches for scholarly literature in a simple, familiar way. You can search across many disciplines and sources at once to find articles, books, theses, court opinions, and content from academic publishers, professional societies, some academic web sites, and more. See the Google Scholar inclusion guidelines for more about what’s in Google Scholar

Advanced Search Tips

For more precise searching, use Google's Advanced Scholar Search Page, or try these tips:

Find content by an author:

• Add the author's name to the search, or
• Use the "author:" operator (eg. aphasia author:jones finds articles about aphasia written by people named Jones)

Search for a phrase:

• Use "quotation marks" to find phrases (eg. "allegory of the cave" plato republic finds articles about Plato's cave allegory in The Republic)

Search by words in the title:

• Use the "intitle:" operator (eg. intitle:fellini finds articles with Fellini in the title]

The library offers a lot of ways to get the content you need. You should never have to pay for it!

• An easy tip: paste the name of this book/article/video you need into the big box on the library homepage!
• In Google Scholar, you can set up Library Links to help you easily "Find it @ WOU":

The CRAAP Test

The WOU library subscribes to a bunch of resources that include high quality information. You can discover some of these by browsing our databases page. You can also use the search box on the main library page to do some basic searching for books, articles, and more!

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