The document provides tips and tricks for effective Google searching, including the use of advanced search features and techniques for limiting search results. It covers specific methods such as utilizing quotation marks, asterisks, and search operators to refine queries, as well as information on Google Books and Google Scholar. Additionally, it introduces resources like eldis.org and tinyurl.com to further enhance search capabilities and manage URLs.

1. Google & Beyond: Tips and Tricks for Finding Information World Bank Group Library Joint Bank-Fund Library Kiev, May 19, 2010

2. Agenda Google Searching Limiting searches, using advanced features Google Book Google Scholar & Find It button Other Google resources Beyond

3. Google---Searching SEARCHING Before searching in Google using plain language, consider crafting your search with specific techniques to retrieve more relevant results. AND is implied in Google searches and therefore is not necessary. For example: Separate searches for [ environmental policy ] and [ environmental AND policy ] will retrieve the same results

4. Google---Searching-con’t Quotation marks (" ") will limit your search to a specific phase. ["climate change"] will search for results with this exact phase. A search for [climate change] will search for results with instances of both the words climate and change, and retrieve such unrelated results as "The political climate has changed since the adoption of free trade." OR helps you search using multiple words which express a similar concept (synonyms). OR must be capitalized so Google understands this is a search operator, not a word to be searched . For example, [teenager OR adolescent OR youth] ["climate change" OR "global warming"]

5. Google---Searching-con’t Asterisks (*) will retrieve words with multiple endings. Bank* will retrieve Bankers, Banks, Banking… feminis* will retrieve feminism, feminisms, feminist, and feminists (~) helps you to search for synonyms and can help you locate words with similar meanings. ~youth will retrieve kids, child, children

6. Google Searching---con’t Setting limits to Google searches intitle: retrieves search words which appear in the website's title field intitle:" climate change" “world bank” inurl: retrieves search words which appear in the websites's url , can search inside a single domain inurl: "world bank" aids filetype: retrieves specific file types such as HTML, PDFs, MS Word (doc), Excel (xls), PowerPoint (ppt) filetype:pdf "organizational development" leadership Define: looks up a word in the dictionaries All these options can be found on the Google Advanced Search Page http://www.google.com/advanced_search

7. iGoogle personalization of the search space Add your favourite news and gadgets (weather, exchange rates) to the main search page Customize how it looks THERE IS A LOT OF WHITE SPACE! Make use of it!

8. Google Book Advanced Search http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Allows you to set limits.

9. Google Book---con’t More support: http://books.google.com/support/

10. Google Scholar Features of Google Scholar Search diverse sources from one convenient place Find papers, abstracts and citations Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web Learn about key papers in any area of research

11. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search Try setting limits in an advanced search

12. Google Scholar ---Result List You can click on the Find It @ JOLIS link to see if we have access for articles that are not freely available.

13. Google Scholar ---con’t This is what you will see when you click on Find IT @ JOLIS

14. Google Translated Search http://www.google.com/translate _ s Search across languages! Translate your search phrase to find and view content in other languages

15. Google Searching- practical uses Try searching for tracking numbers in Google. For example, if you have tracking number for a package, just enter the number Example: 132489810942751 It brings up the fedex site so you can click on it and track progress of shipping

16. Google Searching- practical uses Try searching Flights with just the number and carrier abbreviation

17. Eldis.org Clearinghouse of development information and reports from international aid and development agencies, NGOs, Think Tanks and Research Centers This service enables you to search the full content of over 4000 development focused websites, as selected by Eldis editors. You are able to filter results according to type, such as PDFs, videos and blogs, and by region. http://community.eldis.org/googlesearch/index.htm Search Engine for Development Web-sites

18. Beyond The Awesome Highlighter http://awurl.com Highlight text on a page Saves a copy with a new URL Send the new URL to share with someone They will see your highlighting in the archived copy of the page

19. Beyond The Awesome Highlighter ---con’t 1.Insert a web address & click highlight page 2. Highlight text, click done 3. Share the URL with highlights

20. Beyond Tinyurl.com You have a REALLY LONG URL and you want to include the link in an email but it is so long, it breaks and has to be pasted back together by the recipient --- Try Tinyurl What does it do? Creates a URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. Example: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=economics+gender&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=world+bank&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=2000&as_yhi=2009&as_allsubj=some&as_subj=bus&hl=en&lr = Becomes http://tinyurl.com/chfapw

21. Beyond Newseum’s Front Page Stories http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/ 751 front pages from 73 countries. Sort by region

22. Google & Beyond WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE?