Chapter 8. Searching for Information with Digital Resources.

Chapter 8 uses various pictures and diagrams to show you specific ways to use search engines such as Ebsco Host and Google. When you search sometimes what you type in can be too broad. On page 140 the book explains how to narrow your search. By putting parenthetical Quotations around certain words you indicate that the words between them should be treated as a phrase. example would be "Adolescent girls" "competitive sports". The search engine will then take the two phrases and search for a more narrowed search. When you are looking for a scholarly journal or peer reviewed document it is better to use Ebsco Host. Go into the advanced search and it lays out what you need to search in boxes. If your topic is Immigration and you want to know what advantages and disadvantages there might be then you would type Immigration to the top box and advantages and disadvantages into the next two boxes. The engine will then narrow the journals it brings up by what you typed in. This will give you a more direct answer or result to your search. You can also click other options such as full text, scholarly (peer reviewed) journals, publication, document type, and PDF full text. Google as well has an advanced search option that is very useful. I myself believe that Google's advanced search is a little bit easier to browse because of the layout. But the practical relation is the same as other engines such as Ebsco Host. Some other cites to check out might be Ask, Bing, and Yahoo.