When you search the Internet, it is easy to find thousands, if not millions, of websites geared to your topic.
The challenge is to find RELEVANT, CREDIBLE websites. When searching Google, you can limit your search to credible sources by using this formula:
Your topic, "site", followed by a colon (:), followed by .edu .gov or .org
You can also try putting your topic in quotes.
For example:
"criminology theories site:.org"
This searching technique will limit your results to college and university websites or government publications, which are authoritative, credible sources.
Google Scholar is a way to search the internet for scholarly information on a given topic.
Google Scholar searches for scholarly information provided by academic publishers, professional societies, universities, repositories and scholarly organizations. The types of information Google Scholar provides include:
For the most part, Google Scholar provides a citation to articles without full-text access.
