Skip to Main Content

GEOG 121: Geographies of Globalization : Home

Background Research

Find Scholarly Articles

Find Newspaper articles

Geography Librarian

Profile Photo
Philip McDaniel
he/him/his
Contact:
Digital Research Services, Davis Library

(919) 962-3788

Research & Writing Guides

Save time searching!

When searching for content on the internet, use these tips for better results:

  • Use wildcard characters:  If searching for economic conditions, type the word econ* with an asterisk. That will return economies, economic, economist and any other word that starts with [e c o n].
  • Use quotes:  When searching for two words, quotes will search for the words when they're next to each other.  Thomas Jefferson will return articles with Thomas Payne and Jefferson Starship.  But when "Thomas Jefferson" is searched, only those articles with his name will be returned.

Use Google's Advanced Search to limit by date, language and more
or
Use Operators in Google Searches

Some favorite operators to remember:

  • Use quotes to search for a phrase
     
  • Exclude a word by adding a dash (-) before it
     
  • Search for similar words by adding a tilde (~) before a word (located in the top left of your keyboard)
     
  • Limit to specific sites or domains using "site:"
    For example: site:.edu globalization will search for globalization only on sites ending with .edu

General search tip: Choose effective keywords- what words are likely to appear in the results your want?  What other words might be used?

To search for text on a page: press the Ctrl and the F keys at the same time (PC) or press the command and F keys at the same time (Mac)