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Mastering Web Searching for Effective Research

Enhance your research skills by exploring concepts, procedures, and concerns related to web searching. Find valuable resources like scholarly literature, government reports, and tools for research and teaching. Learn efficient search methods and how to evaluate information quality.

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Mastering Web Searching for Effective Research

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  1. Searching the Web Concepts, Procedures, Concerns Russell K. Schutt, PhD University of Massachusetts Boston and Elizabeth Schneider, MLS Massachusetts General Hospital

  2. Search Focus • The scholarly literature • Secondary datasets • Government reports • Organizational information • Media • Images and sounds • Tools for research and teaching • Discussion • Reference materials

  3. Open access Institutional access Public libraries Paid access The invisible web Direct addressing Subject directories Search engines Citation management Access Methods

  4. Institutional Access Sites • http://www.lib.umb.edu/ • http://www.bpl.org/ • http://www.bl.uk/services/bsds/dsc/delivery.html

  5. Web Warnings • Clarify your goals. • Tailor procedures to goals. • Evaluate quality. • Anticipate change. • Consider generalizability • Avoid addiction. • Cite properly.

  6. Search Engines • Google • Search • Advanced Search • Groups • Images • News • Google Scholar • Google Print • DogPile • AskJeeves • Teoma

  7. 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/

  8. Search Directories • Yahoo • Social Science Information Gateway • Social Sciences Virtual Library • Infomine • Open Directory Project • SocioSite • Librarian’s Index

  9. 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/

  10. Direct Addressing

  11. 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/

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