This video is 1:53 minutes long and will explain why students need to do more than search in Google when performing research for papers and projects at SPU.
Step 1
“Why Can’t I Just Use Google?” – 1:53 minutes
Step 2: Optional
Compare Google with a database from the SPU Library for scholarly research articles.
Do a Google search for "children and television violence."
Look at the top 10 results. How many come from scholarly/peer-reviewed journals?
Try the same search in a database such as PsycINFO.
Compare the first 10 results with what you got from Google.
Which results would be better for a college-level research paper? Try again with some other topic of your choice.
Step 3: Optional
Try Google Scholar. Choose Google Scholar off the SPU Library’s database list; you will get links to the full-text when available through the Library. Compare your results with those in a database from the SPU Library.
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