An excellent way to search the Web for primary sources. Examples:
site:un.org "human trafficking"
site:gob.mx "trafficking in persons"
site:un.org "smuggling of migrants"
site:al "smuggling of migrants"
Note: You will need to change the Scholar setting to U. of Denver to retrieve DU content from off-campus.
Google is an excellent tool for discovering primary documents from the U.S. government, international organizations, and foreign governments. Google scholar searches the full text of many peer-reviewed publications, searching capabilities that go beyond many of the capabilities of our library databases.
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Searching Google Effectively: Finding Primary Resources |
The trick to searching Google effectively is to determine the Internet domain you wish to search, and then to perform a focused search using a site limit. To discover top-level Internet domains for other nations, you can consult Wikipedia's list of Top-Level Domains.
Here are some sample searches. 1. To find documents from mainland China on human rights, you can use the Domain Name link above to discover that the top-level Internet domain for China is cn. Then, you can construct a Google search like this: site:cn human rights. Looking at the Google results you will notice that gov.cn likely refers to government sites within China. You can refine your search this way: site:gov.cn human rights. Further, since many substantive documents are created in PDF format, you can further restrict your results: site:gov.cn "human rights" filetype:pdf. 2. The primary United Nations domain is un.org. You can search Google's indexing of UN documents following this example: site:un.org "human rights" trafficking 3. The various agencies of the U.S. government can be effectively searched in the same manner:
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Searching Google Scholar: Finding Scholarly Secondary Sources |
A complete description of how to search Google Scholar can be found in the Research Guide Google Scholar: Finding Fulltext through U. of Denver Databases. |
