This document provides an overview of Google's search and collaboration products and services for desktop users. It discusses advanced search features in Google including Scholar, Books, Public Data, and Trends. It also covers Google's collaboration tools like Docs, Gmail, Bookmarks, Maps, Sites, and Groups. Finally, it discusses Google News and how it can be used for monitoring news and creating custom sections and alerts.

1. Google Universe A Tour of Google’s Products and Services for Desktop Users Ontario Workplace Tribunals Library [email_address] 416-314-3700 Located on the 7 th Floor – Please Visit for a Personal Tour Monday, July 12, 2010

4. SEARCH & RESEARCH: Advanced Search Google Guide http://www.googleguide.com/ Official Google Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com / Monday, July 12, 2010

5. SEARCH & RESEARCH: Advanced Search Google Guide http://www.googleguide.com/ Official Google Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com / Monday, July 12, 2010

7. SEARCH & RESEARCH: Squared Monday, July 12, 2010

8. SEARCH & RESEARCH: Scholar / Legal Monday, July 12, 2010 Choose to search legal opinions and journals (instead of articles) to ensure you only retrieve legal materials Use Boolean modifiers and advanced search options to narrow your legal search

9. Search for articles from a specific journal and choose a ‘published between’ timeframe We are searching for articles from JOEM published between 2000-2010 SEARCH & RESEARCH: Scholar / Legal Monday, July 12, 2010

10. Click to see which articles cite this one SEARCH & RESEARCH: Scholar / Legal Monday, July 12, 2010

11. Choose to have G-Scholar show you if articles are available through certain libraries SEARCH & RESEARCH: Scholar / Legal Monday, July 12, 2010

36. MONITORING: Google News You can add or create your own section, and set the search parameters…. Monday, July 12, 2010

37. MONITORING: Google News Create a custom section…. Monday, July 12, 2010

38. MONITORING: Google News Search terms : Keywords, specific and simple is best Source Location : Geographic limit, country-level outside the US. Monday, July 12, 2010

39. MONITORING: Google News Advanced Search: You can get very detailed with your search limits Monday, July 12, 2010

40. MONITORING: Google News Advanced Search as a Custom Section or Alert Monday, July 12, 2010

41. MONITORING: Google News Archive Search: some great timeline features Monday, July 12, 2010

42. MONITORING: Google News Archive / Timeline: varies, in this case goes right back to 1970 Monday, July 12, 2010

43. MONITORING: Google News Archive / Timeline: select year and drill down by months. Great for historical “media” or background research on legislation, policy, etc. Monday, July 12, 2010

44. MONITORING: Google News There is also a Google News Timeline “labs” product which uses images to build a visual scan of the day’s news, available at http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/ Monday, July 12, 2010

45. MONITORING: Google News We use it… The library uses Google News to monitor Current Awareness. When working with monitoring tools like Google News to build products and services, you always need to keep in mind that Google “fetches” the articles and then you do the “real” analysis to determine what’s good and what’s not. For more information visit the Google News Blog at http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/ Monday, July 12, 2010

53. MONITORING: Google Reader Click on the blue headline to go the webpage where the article was originally published Clicking on the black headline will expand an article in G-Reader. Click again to minimize . Monday, July 12, 2010

54. MONITORING: Google Reader Follow your co-workers and share items of interest Looking to add new feeds? Search for a topic of interest and G-Reader will suggest feeds for you Monday, July 12, 2010

57. MONITORING: Google Scholar Create an alert for any specific search. You will be notified when there is a new article that matches your search term Monday, July 12, 2010

58. MONITORING: Google Scholar Enter your search term and select ‘Create Alert’ Monday, July 12, 2010

61. COOL & SOCIAL: Custom Search Engine There are 590 specific webpages and full websites in our G-CSE that best suit our clients information needs. When users visits the OWTL website and use our search function, we can ensure that they will only retrieve relevant information from reliable news sources/blogs and government websites. Monday, July 12, 2010

63. COOL & SOCIAL: Custom Search Engine Search query: ‘fall at work’ Results: CSE (preview) All results are government websites that address safety with regards to falls in the workplace. Monday, July 12, 2010

68. COOL & SOCIAL: Wave Monday, July 12, 2010

77. The Ontario Workplace Tribunals Library is open Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 5pm. If you have any questions or need help with your research please call our Reference Desk at 416 314-3700 or e-mail us at [email_address] . Please visit us at owtlibrary.on.ca Monday, July 12, 2010