Transcript Searching for specific types of data

WISER Science
Finding quality information on the internet
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Karen Langdon & Penny Roberts
Web search tools
• Search engines
• Web directories
• Meta search engines
• Academic search engines
• Portals
How to use search tools
• Advanced search options
• Web operators
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http://www.google.co.uk/help/cheatsheet.html
http://www.google.co.uk/help/operators.html
http://www.google.co.uk/help/refinesearch.html
Beware!
• Ranking can be manipulated
Evaluating web resources
• Reliable
• Verifiable
• Current
• Objective
Google and Wikipedia
Angels or devils?
Searching for specific types
of data
• Tables and figures
• Data sets
Roll your own!
• Google Custom Search Engine
• Rollyo
• Yahoo! Search builder
• Eurekster swicki
Feedback
You will get an e-mail with the online
evaluation form in due course
Next session: Conferences
This session will enable you to find out about forthcoming
conferences and also to locate the published papers of
proceedings that have taken place
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
Roger Mills