PHYS 486/685 Seminar in Physics

Research Emerges in a Climbing Cycle:

• Primary Sources - Artifacts, documents, or results;
• Secondary Sources - Articles, chapters, or books;
• Tertiary Sources - Reference or subject encyclopedias;
• Popular Sources - Good places to start; bad places to finish;

Researchers benefit from skiing downward:

• Popular | Reference | Articles, Books | Primary sources.

Advanced Limiters in Google:

Plus sign (+) requires a word to appear: +triangle +Bermuda
Minus (-) excludes terms: --Bermuda Triangle;
Quotation Marks finds Phrases: "extrasolar planets"
Filetype:file-extension finds results in .pdf, .xlsx, .docx or .pptx files;
Asterisk (*) finds nearby terms: geology * planets = "geology of extrasolar planets";
Intitle: finds keywords in a web page's title tags: intitle:"orbital debris"