Research Guides: ENG 674: Research in Life Writing: Alternative Sources & Search Tools

Google Smarter

You can utilize a number of advanced search features in Google to refine your results and get to better sources, faster.

Enter site: into the search bar to limit to a specific site (such as nytimes.com) or domain (such as .edu).
Enger file: to search for a specific type of file results. E.g. file:.pdf will only return PDF results, no websites.
"Quotation marks" will force Google to search for words as a phrase.
A minus sign in front of a word will remove it from the results.
Limit date ranges by enter a start year, two dots, and an end year without any spaces.

Google Advanced Search
You can also use the Google Advanced Search form to walk you through your options

All My Relations - Podcast
A podcast where exploring what it means to be a Native person in the modern day.
Appalachian Oral History Project
Appalachian State University digital collections
Digital Transgender Archive
Content from the Harvard's Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and the Queer Zine archive project
Hip Hop Archive
Supported by Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
The Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Reddit
Reddit is a network of communities where people can dive into their interests, hobbies and passions.