Art 200: Art Appreciation: Web Sites

• Always connect to Google Scholar via the library website, either from the Databases List or from a Research Guide.
• On Google Scholar, under Scholar Preferences, you can manually set your Google Scholar Library Links. 

If you want ONLY results from an educational site, end your keyword search with    site:.edu

If you want ONLY results from a government site, end your keyword search with     site:.gov

If you want ONLY results from museum sites, end your keyword search with           site:.museum

(Note: no spaces between colons and be sure to include the  period after the colon)

To get ONLY results with PDFs, end your keyword search with       filetype:pdf

To get ONLY results with PowerPoint, end your keyword search with      filetype:ppt

Anything that shows HTML or PDF on the right of the entry is usually a free, full text article.

SIFT Method

Mike Caufield from the University of Washington created the SIFT Method to help assess information, including AI-generated content.

• Stop and reflect before engaging with the information
• Investigate the source of the claim
• Find better or more trusted coverage of the claim
• Trace claims, quotes, and media back to the original context

A Primary source of information is first-person, original information. Examples:

• a journal or diary
• original research
• interview
• letter
• speech
• original work of art
• government document
• research article from a variety of databases and web sites

A Secondary source of information is material that has been taken from primary sources and then synthesized. Examples:

• college textbook
• biography
• criticism
• historical study
• journal or magazine article that reviews original works