Science Search Engines
The most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet, locating scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data, latest reports, peer-previewed articles, patents, preprints and science-specific Web pages.
An academic version of the famous search engine. Also useful for links to references which cite other academic articles. Using this link via the Library website means you can get the full-text of articles in journals to which the Library subscribes.
Smart Internet Strategies
There is a huge amount of information available on the internet, but it needs to be used carefully. A typical Google search will produce a mix of information from businesses, governments, campaign groups, individual bloggers and other organisations. It will not produce scholarly information of the kind produced by a search of the databases or the library catalogue.
Be careful of using Wikipedia articles in your assignments. Wikipedia is unreliable because there is no formal editing process and you cannot be sure who wrote the articles. As a rule, never use a Wikipedia article as a reference in your assignment, but you might find some interesting further reading.
One way of improving your experience on Google is by using the options on Google Advanced Search to limit your results.
You could also try using Google Scholar, a Google application that searches for academic material.
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