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Searching the Web. Concepts, Procedures, Concerns Russell K. Schutt, PhD University of Massachusetts Boston and Elizabeth Schneider, MLS Massachusetts General Hospital. Search Focus. The scholarly literature Secondary datasets Government reports Organizational information Media
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Searching the Web Concepts, Procedures, Concerns Russell K. Schutt, PhD University of Massachusetts Boston and Elizabeth Schneider, MLS Massachusetts General Hospital
Search Focus • The scholarly literature • Secondary datasets • Government reports • Organizational information • Media • Images and sounds • Tools for research and teaching • Discussion • Reference materials
Open access Institutional access Public libraries Paid access The invisible web Direct addressing Subject directories Search engines Citation management Access Methods
Institutional Access Sites • http://www.lib.umb.edu/ • http://www.bpl.org/ • http://www.bl.uk/services/bsds/dsc/delivery.html
Web Warnings • Clarify your goals. • Tailor procedures to goals. • Evaluate quality. • Anticipate change. • Consider generalizability • Avoid addiction. • Cite properly.
Search Engines • Google • Search • Advanced Search • Groups • Images • News • Google Scholar • Google Print • DogPile • AskJeeves • Teoma
Search Engines • http://google.com/ • http://scholar.google.com/ • http://print.google.com/ • http://dogpile.com/ • http://ask.com/ • http://alltheweb.com/ • http://altavista.com/
Search Directories • Yahoo • Social Science Information Gateway • Social Sciences Virtual Library • Infomine • Open Directory Project • SocioSite • Librarian’s Index
Search Directory URLs • http://yahoo.com/ • http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/ • http://dialogical.net/socialsciences/ • http://infomine.ucr.edu/ • http://dmoz.org/ • http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/ • http://lii.org/
Direct Addressing • http://www.census.gov/ • http://www.fedstats.gov/ • http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ • http://www.ipl.org/ • http://www.socialpsychology.org/ • http://www.open-video.org/ • http://www.pineforge.com/isw5/weblinks.htm • http://www.extremesearcher.com/