Assignments - Humanities

Search Strategy Skills

Library Search | Ketu

Subject Guides

Databases

Searching the Web

Evaluating Websites

Hocken Collections

Google is a well-known internet search engine.  To ensure you find quality information, use an appropriate search strategy.  Try some of the tips and tricks listed in Google Searching (pdf).
 
Google Scholar can be a useful tool to use to find academic research available on the web.  For help creating a search strategy, read Google Scholar: tips and tricks (pdf). 
  
Google is not the only search engine - also consider:

• Duck Duck Go - A search engine that doesn't track you
• Bing - Microsoft's answer to Google
• Jurn - Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses

Hocken Collections are housed in the Hocken Library, on Anzac Ave, a block from the Stadium.

Culture and history resources reflect New Zealand,  the Pacific and the Antarctic:

Search Library Search | Ketu for publications, then limit results by Library Search Hakena for : Archives and manuscripts Pictures Photographs  Our Heritage contains some online resources, e.g. posters, drawings, exhibitions, reports and ephemera Hocken Snapshop contains some digitised photographs Subject resource guides

Contact Hocken staff on 479 8879, reference.hocken@otago.ac.nz, or take a tour each Wednesday at11am and 2pm.