Library Guides: Pre-Health: Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy

Search Tips

Canadian Points of View Reference Source
Point-counterpoint research database. Contains resources from Canadian magazines, newspapers and reference books that present multiple sides of current issues and controversial topics.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Multidisciplinary encyclopedia database. Contains over 25,000 information segments, images and biographies, searchable by subject or keyword.
Canada Commons
This database contains rare and hard-to-find content from Canada that’s relevant to a wide range of studies including sociology, anthropology, business and economics.

Google is a powerful search tool, which is often underutilized.

Here's a quick list of various filtering and advanced search features available to you.

Filter results by type: images, video, news, etc.
Narrow down results by country, and publication date
Use "quotation marks" to search for an exact phrase
Boolean operator OR helps when searching for synonyms
A dash right before a -term, will exclude it from results
filetype: will search for specific files (e.g. pdf)
site: will find info published on a specific site, or domain (e.g. .edu)
Google Advanced Search is a guided search interface, which will help you search all of the above from one place

Search the web
From the Ontario Colleges' Learning Portal, a variety of sources to help you search Google more effectively to find higher quality resources.

Explainer: What is peer review?
From The Conversation, a more detailed description of the peer review process.
Evaluate for Quality
Tips from The Learning Portal to help you determine whether or not you should use a particular source for your research assignment.