Good Research Practice

• Keep cuttings next to your PC & highlight good keywords

• Divide keywords into "Anchors" and "rudders"

• Keep Word open and paste keywords, notes & images as you go

• Do a new search on any information found to corroborate it.

• Check copyright and libel angles

• Save the site and its images incase of legal problems

• Take screen grabs and paste into Word

• If a site disappears look for it in Google Cache or www.archive.org 

• Open a folder in favourites each programmes research

Browser Tricks and Hot Keys

• You can now use Google to search the internet without having to leave ENPS. The Google search window is now an option off the multi-media icon (the one with the camera) on the bottom of your ENPS screen. 

• Take a key word from the text and drag it into the Google search box, so the search, then highlight and drag the text up to your script window.

• Unlock your toolbar and display "links" bar

• Type javascript:alert(document.lastModified) into your address bar and drag address icon into your links bar. Rename the button "date checker"

• "shift clicking" opens preview windows

• "control + n" opens a copy of the page you are using....(you can then use it for parallel searches) 

• "control + f" finds words on a page

• "control + w" closes the window

• "alt + space + m"  moves the window by using the arrow keys

• Set new window size - drag it to the requisite size, then shift+close window