#research tip

[penguicorns-are-cool]

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!

[creature-wizard]

Whoa there, pardner! What have you done to make sure that belief or practice actually originates in ancient times and didn't come from the imagination of a repressed Victorian romantic?

[tilbageidanmark]

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

[historysurvivalguide]

Search without AI-Overview

AI-overviews and suggested answers have made research very annoying lately. Very often the prompted answers are just wrong, even at a casual glance of the article they are stealing from

And since it shows up first, this kind of misinformation can be dangerous

But there is a lot way to use Google without their weird ideas about “improving” searches with ads/misinformation

Add: “udm=14” at the end of search results to remove prompted answers

Current results (left) and added “udm=14” (right)

“It’s essentially Google, minus the crap. No parsing of the information in the results. No surfacing metadata like address or link info. No knowledge panels, but also, no ads. It looks like the Google we learned to love in the early 2000s, buried under the "More" menu like lots of other old things Google once did more to emphasize, like Google Books.”

This was added under the search options as “web” but it is faster to appended the udm option

A simplified view does not replace the declining quality of Google’s results, largely caused by decades of SEO optimization by website creators. The same overly optimized results are going to be there, like it or not. It is not Google circa 2001—it is a Google-circa-2001 presentation of Google circa 2024, a very different site.

Google Announcement on Twitter

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need o

[thebraveandthebroiled]

Hey ya’ll,here’s a cat!

And here’s a tip:

Write down all the search words you use when you’re researching so you can keep track of what you already looked for. Note the words that give you good results, mark off the ones that don’t, and try to see what patterns emerge. If you’re having trouble try looking for synonyms of your keywords.

[ucflibrary]

Is your desk missing this limited edition #UCFLibrary water bottle?  The first 10 students to stop by the knowledge commons desk from 1:15-2:15 (2/28/19) and ask for a “Research Tip” will get a tip & a water bottle!

[milkyway-mikey]

Pro-tip for students and anyone else who might need it!

This website summarizes any text or website into simple point form notes!! It’s super helpful for research and finding notes on ways to write!

Definitely recommend you try it out with any websites that are too text heavy to just get the important points out! 

[creature-wizard]

General research tip: don't just trust a book or something simply because it has citations; take the time to actually investigate those citations. People can and do sometimes cite bad or questionable sources.