Note: You will need to change the Scholar setting to U. of Denver to retrieve DU content from off-campus.
An excellent way to search the Web for primary sources. Examples:
site:un.org "human trafficking"
site:gob.mx "trafficking in persons"
site:un.org "smuggling of migrants"
site:al "smuggling of migrants"
You can use Google power searching to find documents within DHS or any of the subordinate agencies. Examples:
Searching U.S. state web sites presents to challenges. Originally the .us top-level domain was used for state and local governments. However, over time, the .us domain was assigned to other entities within the United States that were not government related. Originally states were all assigned a URL pattern within the .us domain like this: state.xx.us, where xx is the two-letter postal code for the state. Thus state.co.us would be the Colorado state site, and state.wi.us would be the Wisconsin site. These patterns proved to not be popular with many states, being too difficult for the public to remember and difficult to market. Many states secured other domains for their official content. Colorado uses colorado.gov for its official entry site, and Wisconsin uses wisconsin.gov. However, most states still have a substantial amount of content on the older state.xx.us sites.
If you wanted to find the phrase "homeland security" on Colorado state sites that are in PDF format, you would need to perform two searches:
Information regarding homeland security, emergency management, and related topics can also be found on local governmental web sites. Originally, these are county and city-level sites were assigned sites to use. Counties were assigned URLs like this:
co.[county].xx.us - where co stands for county, and xx stands for the two-letter state postal code.
Cities were assigned URLs like this:
ci.[city].xx.us, where ci stand for city or place name, and xx stands for the two-letter state postal code.
But increasingly over time, counties and cities didn't like these URL patterns are chose to get their own internet domains that made more sense.
| Original URL Pattern | New URL Pattern |
| co.alamosa.co.us | alamosacounty.org |
| co.arapahoe.co.us | arapahoeco.gov |
| co.bent.co.us | bentcounty.net |
| co.boulder.co.us | bouldercounty.gov |
| co.elpaso.co.us | elpasoco.com |
| co.jefferson.co.us | jeffco.us |
| co.lake.co.us | lakecountyco.gov |
Note that sometimes a county will purchase a .gov domain, but other times they may purchase a .us, a .com, a .net, or a .org domain. In most cases now, the newer pattern is used more frequently. But in some cases, it may be necessary to search for content under the older pattern.
Denver is tricky in that it is both a city and a county. The original city domain was ci.denver.co.us, and the original county domain assigned was co.denver.co.us. But most content for the City and County of Denver resides on denvergov.org.
