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A common question asked by students is, “Why can’t I just use Google for my research?” This section answers this question and more. You can find out about:

  • using Google for academic research
  • scholarly and non-scholarly information sources
  • non-English information sources.

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I use Google a lot but my lecturer has asked for scholarly sources, not just web information. Why can't I just Google?