Full text availability

January 15, 2008 by melpurdue

How do you know when Purdue has access to something in full text without searching all of our databases? Try E-Journal Finder. It can tell you which of our databases have a journal in full text and what years they cover.

Searching the Internet

January 15, 2008 by melpurdue

When searching the Internet here are some helpful hints:

Google

  • Use the options inĀ  Advanced Search
  • Limit by domain to .edu
  • Limit by format to .pdf files

Use more than one search engine

SearchEngineWatch – provides links, reviews and articles about search engines

Thumbshots – compares results across pairs of search engines