Inter-Lace : Internet Searches for TL's

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Selecting Websites
Using SCISWeb

Search Tips

Quick Searches

Advanced Searches

Advanced Image Searches

Selecting Sites for Students & Staff

The first place you should look for websites is within the SCIS OPAC.

SCISWeb catalogues websites that are:

Authoritative

Current

Oriented towards Education

Longevity

SCISWeb provides abstracts for catalogued websites. This gives you a guide as to the relevance & suitability of the site. The abstract can be entered onto your library enquiry

Selecting Sites from SCISWeb

Go to SCISWeb

Enter your User Name & Password

Go to SCIS OPAC

Using the Guided Search

Select the Guided Search Tab

In the first space, type in your search term (usually the subject); Select Subject from the drop-down menu

In the second space, type in website; Select GMD from the drop-down menu

Click Search ~ examine sites

Take note of the websites required. You can copy/paste into a word processing document for later reference.

Using the Basic Search with a Boolean Operator

Select the Basic Search tab (this is the default position).

In the space, type the subject term, then type and, then type website. If your subject term is 2 words or more then place inverted commas around the term to make a "string". eg "New Zealand" and website

Click Search ~ examine sites

Take note of the websites required. You can copy/paste into a word processing document for later reference.

Using the New Scis Records

Select the New SCIS Records tab. This searches for items that have been catalogued in the last 1-4 weeks.

This will allow you to view the latest websites added.

Downloading Websites to OASIS - Printable reference sheet

Quick Effective Searches

Use Google

Be specific eg. Try to use a phrase & a qualifier “william shakespeare” profile

Searching for William Shakespeare, type inverted commas around the whole name to narrow the search ("William Shakespeare")

Searching for biographical info about William Shakespeare, type ("William Shakespeare" profile)

Searching for a newspaper article about William Shakespeare, type the term then the newspaper ("William Shakespeare" smh)

Google automatically defaults to ‘and’ when there is more than 1 search term. It will look for all the terms not just some of them. (eg William Shakespeare - Google searches for all matches with William and also matches with Shakespeare).

Search terms highlighted in blurb.

Definitions of underlined words (near the top of your search screen) can suggest other search terms.

What if?

I want a newspaper article

Add ‘smh’ or ‘theage’ to search terms

I can’t see what I am looking for on the page.

Select Edit menu, Find then enter term; or use Ctrl (Apple) F

The page is unavailable.

Select Google’s cached version

I like the page & want to see more of that site.

Shorten the web page address

.pdf documents come up in my search results

Google offers a text version to avoid downloading whole document

Click here for Research Tools

At this page, you'll find specialised information about the best way to research. This page is usually used as a workshop tool.

Advanced Searching

This may also be called a Power Search. This feature is available on most search engines.

Advanced Google Search.

Select the Advanced Google Search link from the Basic Search page.

Enter the search terms then select the options to define the search terms

All words

Exact phrase

At least one of words

Without the words

Select the Language required. Select Any or choose one of 36 languages.

Select the Date when the pages were last updated

Anytime

past 3 mths

6 mths

year

Select the File format (only/don’t)

Variety of formats appear in a drop down menu.

Select Occurrences of terms

Anywhere

in title

in text

URL

links to page

Select the Domain (only/don’t)

Select No filtering or Safe Search.

Advanced Image Searching

Go to Google Images Search & select Advanced Image Search.

Find an image - Enter the search term.

All the words

Exact phrase

Any of the words

Not related to the words

Select the Size of the image required

any size,

icon size,

small,

medium,

large,

very large,

wallpaper

Select the Filetype

any type,

.jpg,

.gif

Select the Coloration

any colours,

b&w,

grey scale,

full colour

Select the Domain required - may be left blank.

Select Safe Search

no filter,

moderate,

strict

Remember that images may be copyrighted.

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