While Google isn't the most efficient way for you to find journal articles, it will be good tool for to find practical blog and magazine articles, conference materials, reports, training and other resources created by people working in higher education.The sources below may be good starting places.
Being a smart searcher can save you time. Below are some tips to make your searching more productive....
Use quotations for phrases and linked words like "high school" or "digital divide"
Use a minus sign (with no spaces after it) to removes items. Adding -"college students" would exclude sites with that phrase.
Limit to specific domains by adding site:org (or site:edu, or site:gov) to your search.This also works for more specific domains like .utexas.edu or austintexas.gov.
Limit to PDF results if you're hoping to find reports and publications by adding filetype:pdf to your search phrase.
After you've run your search, you can use the "Tools" to limit to results from the last week/month/year or to a custom time period.
Consider these criteria when evaluating an internet source and using it in your work.
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