FYS 1010

If you want to conduct more research outside of the CSM databases, here are additional publicly available research resources (not requiring CSM logins) that may be helpful.

Google Scholar may also have links to free PDFs with the full text of some articles and/or different “versions” of the articles. Some universities have institutional repositories where scholars can upload a copy of their research. Authors may also expand an article they wrote into a chapter for an edited book or share pre-print copies of the article.

1. Use quotation marks around your search terms to search for the words in the exact order you would like, instead of separately.
    
2. Use intitle: to retrieve webpages with your keywords in the title of the webpage.
    
3. Use site:. to retrieve webpages from URLs in the domain (.gov, .edu, .org) you specify.  
   
    
4. Use - (a hyphen or minus sign) in front of words to exclude them from your search results.
   
    
5. Use OR in between words to have either or both of the words included in your search results. OR must be capitalized. This is a good way to search for synonyms.
   
   In the above example, Google will find results that include (election AND fraud) and (voter AND fraud).
    
6. Use filetype: to retrieve specific types of files (instead of html webpages). Works for finding most file types.
   
    
7. Use several strategies at once for very specific results.