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Tips For Searching Online

This document provides tips for searching the Internet, including looking for books published by well-known publishers, reports from organizations, encyclopedias, government and academic websites. It warns that some websites allow anyone to upload information that may be plagiarized or incorrect, and recommends using search engines like Google Scholar to search keywords and related references.

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Tips For Searching Online

This document provides tips for searching the Internet, including looking for books published by well-known publishers, reports from organizations, encyclopedias, government and academic websites. It warns that some websites allow anyone to upload information that may be plagiarized or incorrect, and recommends using search engines like Google Scholar to search keywords and related references.

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Tips for searching the Internet

What to look for?

Books by well known publishers


Reports by organizations
Encyclopaedias
Government websites (.gov)
Academic websites (.edu)
The British Council
The BBC on line

Where to start?
Google Books http://books.google.com/
Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/
National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

WARNING!
There are websites where people (anybody) can upload
information it may look like a book but it can be
plagiarized or wrong.
Some examples: monografas.com
www.monografias.com, Scribd http://es.scribd.com/,
Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/, Rincn del vago
www.rincondelvago.com, Buenas tareas
http://www.buenastareas.com/, and a lot more.

How to do it?
Use search engines like Google Scholar, Bing, Altavista, Lycos,
Yahoo, Ask and similar.
Type in keywords or combination of keywords.
Use the technique known as snowball: look at the references or
bibliography of the texts youre reading and search for them

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