Assignments | Social Impact Paper & Lit Review (Butler): Research

You can streamline the quality of your Google searches by focusing on government (.gov) and education (.edu) domains in your results.

• .gov is the most strict to register -- non-government entities can't get it!
• .edu is mostly universities, but you'll sometimes come across some K-12 entities with this domain.
  • The big thing to watch out for is that you're not finding a student paper or project that's been posted on the university domain. Presumably their work is pretty good since it's being shown off publicly, but undergrads are not yet academic experts in their fields (sorry).
• .org can be good or it can be shady -- depends on the nature of the organization that registered the domain.

Google has some advanced search commands to make this quicker. Just add site:___ to your search! E.g. site:nasa.gov or even just site:.edu. Try it below!

Access online library materials through the library databases!

To access the databases  from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your LSC email/password or your 14-digit library barcode.