The Internet offers much information. Do think about the credibility and trustworthiness of information. By using Google Books or Google Scholar, you are focusing your search to more reliable publications:
Use Google scholar to search for academic information. The results are presented in a different way then in Google. When NHL Stenden Library has access to the article or publication in one of its databases, a link is provided on the right hand side next to the result: FullText @ NHL Stenden Library
Change the Settings of Google Scholar if you want to be able to see if found articles are full text available at NHL Stenden.
Go to Settings. Choose Library links from the left menu. Search for NHL Stenden hogeschool, check the box and save the setting.
Underneath the results in Google Scholar you will find the following links:
Cited by - refers to articles that have used the article above
Related articles - shows articles that are about similar topics related to the article above
Cite or " - provides the reference to the article in different citation styles like APA
Use Google Books to search for and within books. Like in the example you can find books about Media Psychology that also contains a chapter about Media content analysis. In the Content page you can find what other information is addressed that you might not expect by looking at the title alone. Certainly handbooks contain contributions of experts and researchers in the field and are generally compendiums of information in a particular field.
Not all pages will be provides because of the copyright. In some cases a link Find it in a library is provided on the left hand side.Use it to see if the book is available in a Library near tot you (like NHL Stenden library) where you can borrow the book Link through to the library to see whether it is available.
Use Google Advanced to perform a more specific search.
For example for publications in pdf in a certain language.
With Google Advanced you can use the Boolean operatoren AND (all these words), OR (any of these words) and NOT (none of these words). Also the option for "exact search" is offered. With this option, the words, phrases or sentences are put in between quotation marks, and searched for exactly so.
Besides that options to limit to language, country, update, domain (.org, .edu etc.) and filetype (.doc, .pdf etc.) are possible.
Many publications on the Internet are published in PDF or as a Word document. Add "filetype:pdf" to your words in the Google search box to find these PDF more quickly.
