Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Google Book Search and Scholar

As suggested, searched for The Missing Manual but felt a little more adventurous so tried looking for Around the World in Eighty Days. Tried an 'All books' search first and got 8 pages including a very welcome surprise - a biography on Audrey Hepburn. Don't ask me how that got there! With a 'Limited Preview and Full View' search got 5 pages and they included weird and wonderful titles. The 'Full View' search produced 17 pages.

Using Google Scholar was quite the learning experience. Stumbled and bumbled my way through all sorts of permutations to look for books and articles by Victoria University. My antennae went into overdrive. The most challenging part of the search was working out how to eliminate any hits that involved Victoria University in Wellington, NZ. Would anyone like to share how they did it????

1 comment:

Leanne ~ Book Lover said...

was the 'antennae' an unintended pun little alien ☺