Transcript Searching Effectively

Searching Effectively
The Free Internet
Magazines: EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost: A Badgerlink Database
• http://www.badgerlink.net
• Choose “Database List”
• Check off the databases you want to search –
you have to read the descriptions
• General ones to start with:
– Academic Search Premier
– MAS Ultra – School Edition
– MasterFILE Premier
Using Advanced Search
Make the computer work for you!
Use Boolean Logic and good Key Words!
Saving searches: My EBSCOhost
Saving paper: Use the email option!
Saving your searches: Tools
• MyEBSCOhost allows you to save both
documents and searches. You can also have new
search results emailed to you automatically. Click
on “MyEBSCOhost” and sign up.
• MyIntute allows you to save web searches in
Intute, and to save pages you found
• Delicious is a social bookmarking site. You can
save an share bookmarks, and organize them
with tags.
• Noodletools includes a “note card” feature where
you can save notes and information.
Noodletools Note card
Your note cards are linked to your bibliography list. Open your list, and then click on
“new note card”.
Read more about note cards here:
http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/usersguide/index.html?n=ApproachesToNoteTaking.html
Searching the Free Internet
And EVALUATING what you find!
Choosing search tools
• http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
• http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/feat
ures/byfeature.shtml See the features of each
engine
• http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/feat
ures/byfeature.shtml See how to create the
most effective search
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
How do they work?
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Who pays for search engines?
How?
How do they work?
How can you get them to work for you?
Want to see the metadata and the code? Click on “View” and then “source” on any web
page.
Metadata header for the NASA
home page
Know how they work!
• Want to see how Google sees your search? Try the
Search Wizard
– http://21cif.imsa.edu/tools/locate/
Practical Advice
• Use sophisticated Search Tools
• Be familiar with specialized and subject search
tools
• Check out these tutorials on searching in different
subject areas http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
• Use more than one Search Tool
http://www.surfwax.com/
Directories organize the web in categories. Yahoo was the first general search
tool, and it was a directory. The Google Directory is a place you can look if you’re
having trouble identifying a topic or want an idea of how much information is out
there. It is computer produced.
Specialized Searches: These search certain
domains
• http://www.usa.gov
• http://www.google.com/unclesam
Use these to search the U.S. Government
• http://www.wisconsin.gov
• Wisconsin Government
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advanced search, you can
limit your search by domain type, language,
and date.
The Invisible Web
• There are lots of things out on the web –
documents, reports, white papers – that are
invisible to the search engines. There are
search tools that try to make them visible
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Purdue University Online Writing
Lab: Resources to Search the Invisible
Web
• For more information, check out Those Dark
Hiding Places (no longer updated)
Use Bibliographies and Lists
• Does the book you’re reading have a bibliography? Look
for those sources
• Have you found a really good web site? Do they have a
list of links or other resources?
• Libraries often have web link lists
– http://www.multcolib.org/homework/
• You can’t use their tutors or databases, but you can use their free
internet links!
• University libraries often have subject guides
– http://www.library.wisc.edu/research-guides-beta/
• They usually start with databases and University resources, but if
you scroll down or look carefully, they often list web sites as well.
Know what you’re looking at : Internet
Evaluation
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Who wrote it? Who published it? WHY?
Clue: Reading the URL
Clue: About Us
Clue: Contact Us
Clue: Author and Copyright information at
the bottom of the page
• Clue: Who linked to it? Use Google Link in
the search box type link: and the
complete
web address (no spaces!)
A Quick Search Tip
• Using Firefox add-ons
– Try this at home! You can also do it at school, but it
may not follow your login and be there next time (if
you try it, let me know how it works)
• Add search tools to your web browser to have all
kinds of searching at your fingertips
• In Firefox, click on the search box in the upper
right hand corner. Click on “manage search
engines” and then “get more search engines”.
You can add as many as you like, and do the same
search in different ones.
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/index.html
Hypertext Markup
Language. A
computer
programming
language that allows
for pictures and links.
Hypertext Transfer
Protocol. A computer
program that allows html
documents to move
across the internet.
More internet vocabulary in the Internet Article in World Book Online:
http://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/extmedia?id=ar279620&st=computer+progra
mming+internet&em=ta279620a
Want to learn more about the Internet?
• Computer History Museum
– http://www.computerhistory.org/
• The Living Internet
– http://www.livinginternet.com/
• The first book published on the Internet was a history of the Internet.
Updated in September, 2009, this is everything you ever wanted to know
about the internet – and more!
• Why is hypertext important? Watch “The Machine is US/ing
Us” by Professor M. Wesch
– http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch or
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Bibliography
• Ferrell, Keith. "Internet." World Book
Advanced. World Book, 2009. Web. 2 Oct.
2009.
Ms. Healey
Lincoln High School Library
Manitowoc, WI
© 2009, 2010