A lot of people start off searching Google for online information about particular topics; the problem is that there is so much information out there, that getting to trustworthy, academic level resources can be tricky.
First off, if you're going to use the Internet for some of your searching, don't go to Google--go to Google Scholar. This is a smaller subset of the Google search engine and your results from here should be fewer and more relevant than a general Internet search.
To make your searching more effective on Google Scholar you will need to alter the settings so that it checks results against the University of Derby's E-Journals Finder collection. That way, if we subscribe to the full-text of an article that comes up in your Scholar search (and as long as you're logged into UDo) you will be able to get through to the full-text of the article more easily.
Step 1: Search for Google Scholar in your browser and click on the Settings icon (the one that looks like a cog)
Step 2: On the Settings page, click on Library Links in the left-hand sidebar
Step 3: In the search box on the next screen, type in University of Derby and click on Search
Step 4: You should see two results for the University of Derby - one for the E-Journals Finder and one for ProQuest Full-Text --> tick the boxes next to both of these and click on Save.
Step 5: You should be returned to the Scholar search screen. Type in your search terms. If you're using multiple terms then you may want to consider using Boolean operators to separate those terms out.
Step 6: When you get your results on screen some of them will have the phrase, Check our E-Journals A-Z, next to them. This indicates that the system thinks full-text access for that article may be available via the University of Derby's collections. Click on the link to check our resources.
