More Advanced Web Searching Secrets for Teacher-Librarians Paul Barron pbbarron@gmail.com and paul@duckduckgo.com All Right Reserved. This presentation may be copied and distributed for nonprofit educational purposes only. Revised and Sites Checked October 2016

Presentation Objectives Review search syntaxes to: Limit results to a: Time period; for example, for one year Single webpage k12.va.us webpage Pinterest PDF or PowerPoint Country; for example, the United Kingdom Find results with search terms in the webpage address Exclude a site or keyword/phrase from search results VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 2 2

Do this search in Google. intitle:”middle school” AND “book recommendations” AND boys VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Reducing the Number of Results VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Reducing the Number of Results How many results are there in the “Past year”? To display the number of results in the “Past year” Select Search tools VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

To Return to the First Results Page Select “Search tools” followed by “Clear” to return to the first results page. VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Excluding a Term or Site in Search Results Google does not support the NOT operator;  the minus sign "-" before a term gives the same functionality.  VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Excluding a Website from the Results VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Excluding a Website from the Results best AND comics AND "graphic novels" AND children -site:amazon.com NOTE The number of results decreased by 1.7 million with the exclusion of www.amazon.com VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course Run these queries. Query # of Results "graphic novels" AND teens AND site:org "graphic novels" AND teens AND site:org -site:ala.org VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

k12.va.us Site-Limited Query k12.va.us-limited Search - Restricts the results to only Virginia DOE webpages or Virginia school divisions with k12 in their webpage URL. VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 11 11 11

k12.va.us-limited Search Results VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 12 12 12

Try one of these queries. Query # of Results "graphic novels" AND teens AND site:k12.va.us read-aloud AND "elementary school" AND site:k12.va.us "reading literacy" AND websites OR links AND site:k12.va.us VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Pinterest Site-Limited Search The site-limited search returns results from only Pinterest. VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Pinterest Search Results VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Searching Other Countries with Google Country-code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) A ccTLD is a unique two letter string assigned to a country or other geographical area to identify it in a webpage address. VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Limiting Results to Another Country Syntax – site:(ccTLD) "john locke" AND "thomas jefferson" AND "declaration of independence" AND site:uk VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course .uk ccTLD Results The sequence .ac (short for academia) is used in many countries for academic institutions. In the United Kingdom academic institutions use domain names ending in .ac.uk.  VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

https://icannwiki.com/CcTLD Country Codes Source https://icannwiki.com/CcTLD VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 19 19 19

Google Search Worldwide Addresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_domains VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Google.ch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_domains VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Try One of these Country Searches "graphic novels" AND site:edu.cn "u.s. bill of rights" AND "u.s. constitution" AND site:ac.uk "anne frank" AND diary AND inurl:uni- AND site:de Uni- is the identifier for a German university VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course URL-limited Searches URL Field Search (inurl:) – Returns results with the terms in the webpage address. Terms in the webpage address may function like a descriptor of the webpage content. VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 23

VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course inurl Search Results NOTE All the results have k12 in the url and the phrases middle school and library instruction in the snippets. VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Your turn to search! Query # of Results inurl:k12 AND "graphic novel" inurl:k12 AND "graphic novel" AND "middle school" AND motivation inurl:k12 AND "graphic novel" AND "middle school" AND motivation AND boys Can you identify the states from the webpage addresses? VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

PowerPoint Filetype-Limited Query Filetype-limited Search - Limits the results to a specific filetype; for example, PowerPoint (ppt), Word (doc), Excel (xls) or PDF (pdf). VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 26

PowerPoint Filetype-limited Search Results VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 27 27 27

PDF Filetype-Limited Query "reading strategies" AND boys AND "middle school" AND journal AND filetype:pdf "reading strategies" AND boys AND "middle school" AND journal AND filetype:pdf Why should I do PDF filetype-limited searches? By adding the keyword “journal” to the query and limiting the results to a PDF, full-text journal articles will most likely be returned. VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 28

PDF Filetype-Limited Query VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 29

PDF Filetype-Limited Query VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 30

“Cited by …” and “Related articles” Through its … “Cited by" feature, provides access to abstracts of articles that have cited the article being viewed. VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course “Cited by” Results VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course The Cited Resource This is a 218-page report on effective programs for struggling readers. Note the Best Evidence Encyclopedia VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Best Evidence Encyclopedia http://www.bestevidence.org VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

“Cited by …” and “Related articles” Through its … "Related articles" feature, presents a list of related articles, ranked by how similar these articles are to the original result, but also taking into account the relevance of each paper. VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course “Related articles” VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Your turn to do site searches! Query # of Results "reading research" AND site:http://www.ala.org/aasl intitle:"read aloud books" AND "book list“ AND “middle school” AND site:pinterest.com intitle:“graphic novel" AND "book list“ AND “middle school boys” AND site:pinterest.com VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Link Checking Syntax – link:(web address) Link Checking returns webpages linked to a website or a webpage. VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course Link Check Results to www.ala.org/aasl/research All are .edu sites VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course Your turn to link check! Query link:www.ala.org/aasl/research link:www.ala.org/aasl/research AND “reading strategies” AND “teacher librarian” link:www.ala.org/aasl/research AND “reading strategies” AND “elementary school” AND "teacher librarian“ AND site:edu VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course

Recommendation for Searching Begin with a title field search - intitle: “your topic” Add Boolean expressions – AND or OR descriptors Limit the results to a top level domain or country with site: Associations or Organizations - .org Educational Institutions - .edu U.S. Government - .gov VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 41 41 41

Recommendation for Searching Limit to a specific website site:k12.va.us Finish with a link check to find other relevant sites Bookmark the best sites VAASL 2016 Annual Conference – Libraries: Charting the Course 42 42 42