Quality Management

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Including our Financial Times and Economist subscriptions

**Watch our 6 minute video: How to get the best from Google**
It covers using Google Advanced search and site: search command.

Top Tips

To ensure you get the best quality information as quickly as possible:

1) Use " " around phrases to restrict your search to more relevant results: "corporate structure"

2) Use a site: command to look for information from particular organisations or web addresses

  • Type site: and the domain you want and then add your search termssite:gov.uk brexit "financial services"
  • The most helpful domains when locating business information include:
    • site:org.uk - get an industry perspective on a topic with results from UK organisations 
    • site:gov.uk - find government policy on particular issues
    • site:parliament.uk - very useful for locating parliamentary research reports

3) Use Google Advanced Search

For more tips, see Karen Blakeman's Google Search Commands and Google Search Tips

Your Subject Team

 Hannah Porter

Faculty Librarian

email hannah.porter@port.ac.uk

phone (023) 9284 3238