From the library homepage select Search the Internet Select Google

or, click in the location box at the top of the browser screen type this address: www.google.com

Why use Google? Faster, better, cheaper!

Tips for searching the web: 

• Google automatically searches as if an AND were between any search words.
  (all of the words you use in the search box will have to be in each one of the results)
• Use quote marks to search for words in exact order, like:
  "mating behavior"
  "migration pattern"
• Use quote marks to search for names like "George W. Bush"
  or "Michael Jackson" or, "Diane Fossey"
• Limit your search to one domain.
  osprey "food source" site:.edu
  "cliff sparrow" "legal status" site:.gov
• Use the minus sign - to eliminate unwanted results:
  dolphins -football
• find an image (picture)
  Click on Images above the Google tool bar and type in the name of your species

Using Google, identify at least one quality Internet resource on your topic. 

Scroll up and down the Web page to find the following information:

Author (if available)_____________________________________________________

Title_________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

Date of latest update to the Web page if available:______________________________  

Date you saw the Web page______________________________________________

Web address:_________________________________________________________ 

See the Google search guide "Google Help Center" at: www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

 ||Revised July 2008 || Johanna Bowen