{"id":2821,"date":"2020-11-16T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:24:44","slug":"finding-information-knowing-where-to-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/finding-information-knowing-where-to-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Information: Knowing Where to Look"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/11\/doors-1767563_1920-1024x546.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of several closed doors, one painted yellow the others painted white.\" class=\"wp-image-2822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/11\/doors-1767563_1920-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/11\/doors-1767563_1920-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/11\/doors-1767563_1920-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/11\/doors-1767563_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When you\u2019re looking for information to help you write your\nessays, assignments or projects it can be tempting to turn to the source of\ninformation you use every day &#8211; Google.&nbsp;\nWhile Google can be useful in some ways (such as finding company\nwebsites or journal author\u2019s profiles), it wasn\u2019t exclusively designed to help\nyou find good quality, academic information that is reliable and relevant.&nbsp; This means you\u2019ll likely have to spend more\nof your time wading through huge amounts of information and fact-checking\nresources for accuracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, Google isn\u2019t your only option \u2013 there are a number of different places to look that have been created with the aim of providing you with the information that you need, such as your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/resources-and-study-support\/databases-journals-reading-lists\/\">reading lists<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/libsearch.ncl.ac.uk\/\">Library Search<\/a>, and key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/resources-and-study-support\/subject-guides\/\">Subject Databases<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a look at this video to find out more about how these\nsources can help you: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ASK Online Learning Resources 1.1: Finding Information - Knowing where to look\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A3VqZ1V7j5Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For more help on finding information, take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/academic-skills-kit\/information-and-digital-skills\/finding-information\/\">Academic Skills Kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re looking for information to help you write your essays, assignments or projects it can be tempting to turn to the source of information you use every day &#8211; Google.&nbsp; While Google can be useful in some ways (such as finding company websites or journal author\u2019s profiles), it wasn\u2019t exclusively designed to help you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/finding-information-knowing-where-to-look\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finding Information: Knowing Where to Look&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,96,114],"tags":[43,44,45,25,10,142,46,36,2,47,48,49,18,50,4,27,51,52,28,95,37,53,29,54,55,23,22,56,57,21,11,16,30,135,9,20,62,63,64,65,66,67,38,6,70,100,33,41,71,34,19,35,42,72,24,73,74],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-subject-guides","category-top-tips","tag-agribusiness","tag-agriculture","tag-animal","tag-linguistics","tag-archaeology","tag-architecture-2","tag-biology","tag-biomed","tag-business","tag-chemeng","tag-chemengnuis","tag-chemistry","tag-chinese-and-japanese","tag-civil","tag-classics","tag-combhon","tag-computing","tag-countryside","tag-communication","tag-culture-and-heritage","tag-dentistry","tag-earth","tag-education","tag-eee","tag-electricalnuis","tag-english-language","tag-english-literature","tag-environeng","tag-environsci","tag-film","tag-art","tag-french","tag-geography","tag-geospatial","tag-history","tag-italian","tag-marinesci","tag-marinetech","tag-marinenuis","tag-maths","tag-mecheng","tag-mechnuis","tag-medicine","tag-philosophy","tag-physics","tag-planning-and-landscape","tag-politics","tag-psychology","tag-reneweng","tag-sociology","tag-spanish-and-latin-american","tag-speech","tag-sport","tag-sustainability","tag-translating-and-interpreting","tag-transport","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7429,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/7429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}