Journalism

Google Scholar  purports to cover scholarly published material, but we do not know exactly what is included. It can be a useful search tool, but use it very carefully.  We lose the ability to have edited, verified collections like we have when searching library databases, though it can help broaden the disciplines we cover in our searches.

To get the most full text, register with Fogler Library by going to the Menu bar in the upper left, click on Settings, then click on Library Links. Choose University of Maine - Full Text.

Strategically Search Google When Researching a Story! 

There are often times when you might need information from governments or organizations that aren't necessarily in other types of database, or that are hard to find in Google. Here are some tips for strategically searching Google.

There are many ways to strategically search Google, in order to conduct more complex searches and focus your results. In the above example:

• intitle: refers to any terms you want to ensure are in the title of the web page itself (in this case, that would be "climate change"). This often produces a more relevant set of results.
• quotation marks around "climate change" hold those words together so that Google searches for that exact phrase (rather than a search that returns the word climate or the word change).
• ~coast tells the search that you want terms related to the word right after the tilde (~); for coast, this might include terms like coastal, coastline, waterfront, shoreline, and seaside.
• minus sign in front of Alaska tells the search to exclude Alaska-related terms from your results; if there are places, topics, or issues that aren't relevant to your particular topic, you can exclude them this way, so that you have a more focused set of search results.
• site:.gov tells Google that you only want results from government websites. You can also use site:.edu, or other relevant domains (for instance, site:.org if you're interested in organizations that care about or work in your area of interest). 
• The date limiter can be found in the Tools section of your Google search (the Tools section is linked directly below and to the right of the search bar after you run a search).