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Part A: Basic Google Search Tools

• Google provides a number of exercises and practice questions to help you start honing your search abilities. Using Google search and its various advanced functions, work through each of the following variations of Google-created problems using the skills you saw demonstrated in the tutorials. (NOTE: the search tools listed in parentheses should provide a much easier or higher-quality answer than a generic Google search).

1. (Google Search and Filetype operator) Two future U.S. presidents signed this important historical document. Two presidents didn't because they were abroad. Despite the importance of this document, modern viewers seem to think it has a glaring spelling error. What document is it? To answer this question, locate a PDF of this document that is hosted on an official government website (ending in .gov) and submit that link as your answer to this question. 

ENTER URL (EX: www.someagency.gov/importantdoc.pdf)

1. (Google Currency Converter with Time Range filter). If you arrived home from a trip on January 16th, 2017 with 200 South African rand, 250 Kuwaiti dinars and 50 Japanese yen, how much would you have in total in U.S. dollars?

ENTER TOTAL SUM IN DOLLARS (Ex: $203.45)

1. (Google "quote strings", Google Books) In which published book does the following word-for-word account of the funeral of a famous American appear?

"The American Dream died young and was laid to rest on a splendid afternoon in May 1862, when blooming apple trees heralded the arrival of spring. At three o'clock, a bell tolled forty-four times, once for each year of a life cut short. Dismissed from school, three hundred children marched to the funeral under the bright sun. Those with luck and pluck would grow up to transform American capitalism during the Gilded Age. But on this day the scent in the air was not wealth, but wildflowers. Violets dotted the grass outside the First Parish Church. The casket in the vestibule bore a wreath of andromeda and a blanket of flowers that perfumed the sanctuary with the sweetness of spring." 

ENTER TITLE (Ex: The Great Gatsby)

1. (Google) Whose funeral was it?

      ENTER LAST NAME (Ex: Shakespeare)

1. (Google Translate, Google Search) Können Sie die Bevölkerungsdichte im Dezember 2015 der größten Stadt in Deutschland finden? 

ENTER POPULATION DENSITY IN PEOPLER/KM2 (Ex: 350 per km2)

1. (Google Search) Two famous founders of the disciplines of sociology and economics (both were German-born) held the position of "privatdozent" (lecturer) at the largest University in the city from the last question (today, it's called Humbolt). What is the last name of either one of these thinkers? 

ENTER LAST NAME (Ex: SMITH)

1. (Google NGram Viewer) There is a beautiful, rare English word that perfectly describes what students do at the end of lectures. The word is absquatulate.  According to the Google NGram project, WHEN is the first documented use of this exact spelling of this odd word in the current collection of all Google Books? That is, what was the first year with a non-zero appearance of this word?

ENTER YEAR (Ex: 1776)

1. (Search Google Books within NGram Viewer) The very first appearance of this word in the nGram data is not available for vieiwing in Google Books. If you wanted to cite the earliest available publication containing this word that can be viewed in Google Books, what would an APA style in-text citation for this source look like? [HINT: you can provide any source from 1848 (or earlier)]
   ENTER IN-TEXT CITATION Ex: (Burke 1776)

1. (Google Books and nGram Viewer) Is this word still in use? Use the date selection tool and sorting to find the most recent publication available in Google Books that contains this word. What is the title of this book or publication? 

NAME OF PUBLICATION (EX: Her Majesty's Royal Cat)

1. (Google Trends) How often do other people search for the word "absquatulate" using Google? Use Google trends to determine how often this single word was a search query in Google. Restrict your search to only the United States and only the year 2016 (Jan 1-Dec 31, 2016). Then answer this question: in which U.S. state was this keyword searched for most often?

ENTER STATE (EX: CALIFORNIA)

Part B: Using Google Image Search

INTRO:

Remember to view the tutorials for this section before attempting - it will save you a lot of time and frustration. In this next set of exercises, we use a special search tool called time limiting in order to track down the original source of an image that has spread virally across the internet and been copied and reposted thousands of times. This is an important skill when you wish to locate the correct source to give proper attribution (or to contact in the proper way for permission to reuse the image). Let's see our example for this quarter:

There is a saying that has long been popular among many writers (and controversial at times). The phrase is "content is like water". We'll be talking about content next week in lecture, when it will make more sense. More recently, the phrase has taken on a second life among those who design websites and other content for many different devices – each with a different screen size, resolution, user interface, and so on.

 For this part of the lab, I'd like you to do a bit of "research" using Google Image search to learn more about the history of a specific image that includes this phrase. Let's get started. Here's a tiny version of the image.

STEP-BY-STEP FOR PART B:

• Use Google Image Search to search the exact query content is like water (no quotation marks yet)

• ALTERNATIVE: Save a copy of the image named content-like-water.jpg to your local hard drive and use the Google Image "upload an image to search for" feature to search for this exact image (and those like it).

• That's a lot of clones! Apparently this phrase and the image below are very popular. Who used it first?

• One way to answer this question is to see if any citation information was included in the image file itself

• Examine a few of the hundreds of copies of the image and record any and all attribution information you might find at the bottom or on the side of the image. If there is more than one name, please copy them all

• Notice as you view the different images that the source may not be listed as the same on every one!

• Now, let's try to find the original by filtering on date (see the videos above for a full explanation). Start by entering 2015 in the "To" box on a Custom Range Time search under "Search tools". This should give you all image matches that appear on a page dated before December 31, 2015. Fewer results, right? Let's keep going.

• Start by going one year at a time – 2014, then 2013, then 2012, and so on. Stop going backward when the image that we are looking for disappears from the search results altogether. You now have a very good idea which two years lie on either side of the "first appearance" of this image. Now let's go one step even further.

• If you stopped on 2008, for example, back up one page or re-enter 2009 as the cut-off point. This will show you a small number of matching images (and many other non-matching images) that would have existed within a year of that "first appearance" of this image.

• Examine your search results very carefully. Click on the very first result (the best match, according to Google). If you've done the time-filtering correctly, it should take you to a blog with the following title:

Translation "Responsive Web design - present and future of the mobile adaptation"

-or-

Traduction “Responsive Webdesign – présent et futur de l’adaptation mobile”

•  Quel désastre! (What a disaster). The article is in French! You have three options.

  • If you are searching in Google Chrome, right click and simply choose "Translate this page"

  • If you are using Mozilla Firefox, you may be able to install the Google Translate Add-On (possibly not on UCI Computers), and again, just right-click and select "Translate this page" (may require a restart)

  • You can *always* select all the text with your mouse, copy it, and paste it into Google Translate directly (open another window in your browser and navigate to https://translate.google.com (Links to an external site.)

• Do your best to read the text (there will be many translation errors, but you'll get the point)

• Copy down any information that you find in this blog post about the origin of the image

• Also note the date this blog piece was posted (does it match the time-frame you estimated earlier?)

• Is it possible to download this file in an editable format from this page? If so, note the file format

• Now, let's back up to our Google Image Search results one more time. We've found the likely source of this exact image (and if you were observant, also the person to whom the exact words in the image are attributed)

• But, depending on which versions you viewed at the start, you might have seen a third source listed – the person who is credited with the original idea (not applied to content) of water taking different shapes. Who?

• NOTE: The idea is much, much older, but we've reached the end of our present investigation – we know the source of the image, the source of the words in the image, and the next most immediate source of the ideas in the image (maybe even the film). In short, we've done our due diligence.

 QUESTIONS FOR PART B:

 Using the notes you took or the pages you have open, you should now be able to answer:

1. What is the exact URL to the French blog piece that described the origins of the image?

ENTER EXACT URL (Ex: http://www.happyblog.com/posts/mydog (Links to an external site.))

1. What is the full name of the person who created the image itself and shared it with the world?

ENTER FULL NAME (Ex: John Smith) 

1. What was the date that this image was posted to the blog?

ENTER DATE (Ex: September 30, 2005) 

1. What filetype was the image also available in on that site (program name or file extension is also fine)

ENTER FILETYPE (Ex: Adobe Illustrator File) 

1. If you had a question about the image or the source of the quote, what contact information (social media usernames, email address, or a contact me link) is available on that page (LIST AT LEAST 2)?

ENTER CONTACT METHODS (Ex: Facebook and Instagram) 

1. What is the full name of the person who is credited with the exact quote (exact words) in the image?

ENTER FULL NAME: (Ex: Bill Rodriguez) 

1. What was the title of the talk in which this quote was made popular?

ENTER TITLE OF TALK (Ex: How to inspire people with images of quotations) 

1. What was the date (month and year) that this conference occurred? (HINT: conference was named BDCONF – a search for BDCONF plus the speakers name is one of many ways to find this information)

ENTER DATE (Ex: July 2002) 

1. Does the person who said this quote have a Twitter account? If yes, what is his Twitter handle (username)? If no, just put "no".

ENTER HANDLE or "NO" (Ex: @billrodrigueztweets) 

1. Who is the more famous 20th century celebrity to whom the ideas in this quote have been attributed?

ENTER NAME: (Ex: Sean Connery)

Part C: Using Google SCHOLAR, JSTOR, and WOS/WOK

NOTE: to use some of the academic search engines like JSTOR and WOS/WOK, you will need to be on campus to connect OR logged into the UCI VPN (visit http://www.oit.uci.edu/vpn/) to learn more. Be sure to use the standalone version of the campus VPN (Cisco client) for the best results). If you cannot complete this section for any reason, you are strongly advised to come to campus and complete it from there or simply submit Lab 4 next week. 

Let's first try a very simple, but effective approach to finding articles that may relate to your topic. Looking up the curriculum vita (cv – a list of achievements and publications) of a professor or academic researcher whom you would like to meet or work with some day (or whom you have already identified as someone who writes about your topic) is a very important way to start getting involved in academic research. Let’s try it out.

1. First, what is the main academic department at UCI where your major is housed? If you don’t know, try starting at the UCI School of Social Sciences home page and exploring the different departments listed there. When in doubt, just pick the one that seems closest. Which department did you choose?

ENTER NAME OF A UCI DEPARTMENT OR PROGRAM (Ex: Criminology, Law, and Society) 

1. Select one faculty member in the department you are exploring whom you already know from taking a class with her or him,or someone whose research seems interesting to you (most departments list research interests right next to the faculty member’s name and photo!). What is the selected faculty member’s name?

ENTER UCI FACULTY MEMBER'S NAME (Ex. Charles Ragin) 

1. Follow the “cv” link next to their name or do a Google search with “cv” added to their name. If there is no cv for that faculty member, repeat the previous steps until you find someone with a cv available online. Provide the URL to this online cv or the URL to an Adobe PDF version of this cv.
   ENTER URL OF THE CV (Ex: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~kfaust/cv.pdf) 

1. Take a few minutes to look over the peer-reviewed publications section of their CV. Then provide the full title of one of their most recent listed peer-reviewed publications.

ENTER THE TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION (Ex: "Expectation as Anticipation Under Strain: A Theory") 

Next, suppose you are working on a summer research internship (or maybe the UCDC program!) at a Washington think tank that you hope may someday turn into something more. But before you get ahead of yourself, there are a number of basic search tasks that you have been given on your first day on the job. Find the information and resources listed below to help ensure that your new employer stays happy!

1. One of the researchers at this organization does research on game theory and wants to cite a very famous paper by NASH, JF that appeared in the journalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA in the year 1950. The research cannot remember the exact name of this article. Use one of the academic search engines to locate the title of this highly influential paper.
   ENTER EXACT TITLE OF PAPER (Ex: "Economic Principles of Micro-Lending") 

1. To see just how influential this paper has been, use theWeb of Science/Web of Knowledge to determine how many times this paper has been cited by other researchers in their own work (using all available databases). [NOTE: do not report the number of citing articles, which will be lower]

ENTER NUMBER OF TIMES ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED (Ex: 1,234,567) 

1. In 2001, a major motion picture entitled "A Beautiful Mind" retold the story of Nash's life and his contributions to game theory and economics. Check the box next to this article in the main search results and then click on “citation report” to find out how many times this famous article was cited in just the year 2001.
   ENTER NUMBER OF TIMES CITED IN JUST 2001 (Ex: 2,345) 

1. Make sure that you go back to the original search result in WOS/WOK and click on the actual article title to open up the full article search result. Click on the Times Cited link to pull up the list of all articles that have cited this influential work. Sort from oldest to newest and then report the year thefirst known article citing this major article appeared and the name of its author(s).
   ENTER YEAR AND AUTHOR NAME (Ex: Blass and Klein 1981) 

1. Returning one last time to the main page, click on the UC e-Links icon in the upper left to view the various ways that you could access the original text of this article from on campus or while logged into the campus network via VPN (see note on previous page). Is the full text of this article available to you as a student? If no, just put “no”. If yes, also include the name of the website that you are redirected to or the service that you would use to download a copy of this article as a PDF file through UCI.
   ENTER YES/NO AND NAME OF SERVICE IF NEEDED (Ex: Yes – Proquest) 

1. Now another researcher at your same organization wants your help with her project. She would like to know how many different journals she should plan to include in a broad review of the literature in the field of “international relations”. To help her, start by visiting the UCI Libraries e-journal page (link here:http://ucelinks.cdlib.org:8888/sfx_uci/az (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)) and entering this exact phrase into the search box: international relations. How many results are produced (use “contains”)?
   ENTER NUMBER OF RESULTS (Ex: 34) 

1. Let’s do the same thing using JSTOR. Navigate to the JSTOR “Advanced Search” window and scroll down until you see the phrase “NARROW BY DISCIPLINE AND/OR PUBLICATION TITLE:”. Scroll down the list of major subjects. Do you see anything that matches this topic? You can search further by entering the “Browse by Title” mode at the top and searching for a few of the journals turned up in the previous item. When you are satisfied answer this question: would you recommend that this researcher use JSTOR as a research tool for her review of theinternational relations literature?

ENTER YES/NO (Ex: Yes) 

1. Use the Browse By Subject Feature in JSTOR to select a subject field that might relate to your own research topic for this class this quarter. Enter that subject by name here. (note: this should be one of the main subject areas listed on the Browse by Subjects page. Choose whichever one seems to be the closest fit.).
   ENTER SUBJECT HEADING (Ex: Sociology) 

1. How many journals and/or other publications are searched and indexed in the subject you chose for the previous answer?
   ENTER ACTUAL NUMBER OF JOURNALS (Ex: 213) 

1. Scroll through the list and provide the name of one publication or journal that you think might hold promise as a source of high-quality, hopefully peer-reviewed research reports about the topic that you’ve chosen to write about. If you cannot find ANY promising titles using JSTOR, you can try WOS/WOK, Proquest, or another Academic Search Engine. Pleasedo not use Google Scholar for this task, and note that you may have to figure out how to Browse by Subject or Title in these other search engines).

ENTER TITLE OF JOURNAL (Ex. Journal of Sport Fishing Science) 

1. Scroll through the list and provide the name of one specific (lead) researcher that you think might hold promise as a starting point for further research related to your topic. If you cannot find ANY promising names using JSTOR, you can try WOS/WOK, Proquest, or another Academic Search Engine. Pleasedo not use Google Scholar for this task, and note that you may have to figure out how to Browse by Subject or Title in these other search engines.

ENTER NAME OF RESEARCHER (Ex. FISHER, B.)

1. If you haven't already done so, be sure to review the videos from Module 3.2 on Academic Search. In them, I briefly discuss the significance of keywordsfor effective searching. Booth et al. discuss these as well. When you have a clear sense of what makes a good keyword (specific, relevant, unique, etc.), list any three (3) high quality keywords that you could use as part of a search for articles relating to your research topic and question for this course.

ENTER THREE KEYWORDS (EX: game theory, artificial intelligence, turing test) 

1. Using one or more of your keywords andany academic search engine studied this week in lab or mentioned in lecture, locate any two (2) research articles that are available as full text and provide either the stable URL or the DOI for each article.

ENTER STABLE URL OR DOI FOR ARTICLE NUMBER 1 (EX: doi:10.1073/pnas.36.1.48) 

1. Using one or more of your keywords andany academic search engine studied this week in lab or mentioned in lecture, locate any two (2) research articles that are available as full text and provide either the stable URL or the DOI for each article.

ENTER STABLE URL OR DOI FOR ARTICLE NUMBER 2 (EX: doi:10.1073/pnas.36.1.48)