Online Resource Search - Catherine Shreve - Week 2: What is Terrorism?

Are you looking to read more on this topic, but

finding that most of the academic materials are not free?

Hello, I'm Catherine Shreve, Duke University Librarian for

Public Policy & Political Science, and I'm here to help you with your search.

No further reading is required for this course.

But if you are curious to find out more about the topic,

please watch this brief video.

It will show you some ways to find scholarly articles, book chapters, and

reports that are open access.

That is, free to read and download.

Google Scholar is a way to limit your Google search to academic materials.

Go to scholar.google.com and notice that you may use

the Advanced Search link at the top for more effective searching.

Here is a sample search on US terrorism policy since the 9/11/2001 attacks.

Notice that the advanced search gives you multiple options for

narrowing your search and making it more relevant.

I am searching all the words terrorism policy.

I put United States in the exact phrase box, so that Google will

know not to search for the two separate words United and States.

If you want to really narrow your search, click the drop down arrow

next to where my words occur and choose in the title of the article.

To further narrow your search, enter the dates you want.

Click the blue search button.

Here are the results.

Now the challenge is to identify those that you may get for free.

Look for results that have a link on the right side.

Or come from an Internet address ending in .edu for

educational institutions, or .org for non-profit organizations.

Or .gov for US government documents.

Books.google.com as in our first result, will show you

selected excerpts from published books, often including most of the first chapter.

Notice on the left that you may change the date limits from the results page here

and you may sort by relevance or date.

There are more Google search tips in your course document, titled for

Online Resource Search - Catherine Shreve