Library:Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 03/Page 02

UBC Library provides access to many academic and scholarly resources, which will be covered in the next modules.

But Google is a great place to start when you’re familiarizing yourself with a topic. It can be helpful in finding freely available information, such as reports from governments, organizations, companies, and so on.

There are limitations to using Google:

• It’s a “black box” of information
  • It searches everything on the internet, providing no quality control - you don’t know where results are coming from
• There is limited search functionality and refinement options