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What are we going to talk about?. Information seeking habits of potential usersHow do you help them?Foraging for informationDissuade them from using Backrub (Google)!-What form will the information assume? (Full text on line versus DDR)-Simple word / phrase search techniques-More complex se
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1. Welcome JCCC@DRDO
2. What are we going to talk about? Information seeking habits of potential users
How do you help them?
Foraging for information
Dissuade them from using Backrub (Google)!
- What form will the information assume? (Full text on line versus DDR)
- Simple word / phrase search techniques
- More complex search methods
3. The Deep Web “Deep” Web is a vast reservoir of Internet content that is 500 times larger than the “known” surface World Wide Web-scholarly information resides here
Contains 7,500 terabytes of information compared to 19 terabytes of information in the surface web
Has 550 billion individual documents compared to the 1 billion of the surface web
4. Find me an article!
5. Meeting faculty needs
6. Journals in specific subjects
7. How to retrieve Full Text not subscribed by the Library
8. Simple tricks JCCC @ UGC INFONET is case insensitive
Word & phrase searching (specialized searching)
e.g., polycarbonate & fast fourier transform;
e.g., fractal and “human genome project”
British & American spelling variants
e.g., orthopaedics & orthopedics, fiber & fibre, colour & color
Use abbreviations (in the topic)
e.g., mhd or magnetohydrodynamics, emi or electro magnetic induction, LCD or liquid crystal display) etc.
Do not use abbreviations for conducting a publisher search
e.g., CUP (use cambridge university press), AIP (use american institute of physics) etc.
Beware of spelling mistakes
JCCC is unforgiving of spelling mistakes! Please check. You don’t have a friendly genie prompting you “did you mean…” “was it like this…” “can I help you?….”
Use Boolean connectors
- e.g., AND (narrows), OR (broadens), NOT (excludes);
9. Simple tricks contd.. Do not use apostrophe’s in your search
-E.g., Euler’s, Avogadro’s etc..
Do not use umlauts (diacritics)-the umlaut consists of a pair of dots over a letter
Umlauted vowels are a, o, u
-E.g. Schrödinger's equation, Schön etc
10. Simple tricks (contd.) synonyms Use synonyms
Flu = common cold = influenza
Car = automobile
Road = street = avenue = boulevard
Germs = bacteria = virus
Doctor = physician
Lawyer = attorney
Headache = cephalagia = migraine
11. Simple tricks (contd.) truncation forest* will retrieve…forest, forests, forested, forester, foresters, foresting, forestation, etc.
tour* will retrieve…tourism, touring, tourists, tours, tourmaline, tournament, etc.
behavio* will retrieve…behaviour, behavior, behavioral, etc.
12. Truncation pitfalls Imagine you are looking for information about a symptom of a particular disease or disorder
and decide to use truncation to retrieve variations of the word (e.g. symptoms, symptomatic, etc.)
13. Truncate at ‘t’
14. Truncate at ‘p’ Symptoms
Symptomless
Symptomatic
Symptomatically
Symptomatology
Symposia
Sympathetic
Symphonic
Symphony
15. Boolean AND (Narrows)
16. Boolean OR (Broadens)
17. Boolean NOT (Excludes) NOT is used to exclude words from your search results
18. Help me conduct a search A student comes to you with the following topic
“Analysis of heavy metals in sea water”
& needs to find relevant articles
How do you help him/her?
19. Build the strategy map
20. Execute the strategy map HEAVY METALS
OR
COPPER
OR
LEAD
OR
NICKEL
21. Search results (in title)
22. Same search strategy refined HEAVY METALS
OR
MERCURY OR hg
OR
LEAD OR pb
OR
NICKEL OR ni
OR
Cadmium OR cd
23. Refined search results (in title)
24. Create TOC alerts in JCCC using MY Journals
25. Registration is FREE!!!!
26. Create Profiles of your Research Interest and Add Journals to receive TOC alerts
27. Thank you!
I look forward to the pleasure of being in your midst when a user awareness program for faculty & students is convened at your university