New Google, new challenges
How to get the best out of Google and improve search results
Essential non-Google search tools for researchers
General search and specialist alternatives to Google
Free search tools for scientific information
Options for searching and viewing scientific papers and information free of charge
Social Search
When and how to use social media and professional networks as part of your search strategy
Business information resources
Key internet resources for business information concentrating on free and PAYG
Market research and statistics
Resources and search techniques for tracking down quality market research and statistics
Free government, official and legal resources
How to track down current and past papers, policy documents, legislation and official research
Finding and using open data
Tools and techniques for finding and using open data sets
Assessing the quality of information
How to separate the good from the bad and exceedingly ugly
These are some of the presentations and workshop materials from recent events. You are free to download them and use them for your own personal use or for sharing within your organisation. Please note, though, that given the rate at which search tools and sources change some of the information will become out of date very quickly.
Mini case study - science Updated 19th October 2018 with links to articles and additional information on Google Scholar advanced search.
Exercises (Google Docs)
If you are interested in what was available in the past and the history of search, many of my older presentations are archived on authorSTREAM and Slideshare.
Google makes it harder to change location for country specific research - PDF of my blog posting on the topic.
Selected Google Comands HTML PDF
Top Search Tips HTML PDF (some overlap with Google Search Tips)
Search Tools Summary and Comparison Table. Summarises and compares a selection of the advanced search commands that are available in Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo. HTML PDF