USING THE INTERNET FOR RESEARCH
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Transcript USING THE INTERNET FOR RESEARCH
What Is the Internet?
o Millions of computers linked
together around the world
Information can be sent from any computer to any
other 24 hours a day.
Homes, schools, universities, government departments,
or businesses small and large.
WHAT KINDS OF
COMPUTERS?
single personal computers
workstation
school or a company network
Hand-held
Network of Networks???
all smaller networks of
organizations are linked together
into the one giant network called the
Internet.
Equality
All computers are pretty much
equal once connected to the
Internet, the only difference
o
speed of connection
o
dependent Internet Service provider
o
and your own “modem”
Why Use the Internet?
Range of services
Communicate and share info
Quickly and inexpensively
Tens of millions of people
Young and old
All over the universe
Why Use the Internet?
Range of services
Communicate and share info
Quickly and inexpensively
Tens of millions of people
Young and old
All over the universe
Why Use the Internet?
Keep in touch by
E-mail
Internet telephone
Chat
Videoconferencing
Databases
Libraries
Newsgroups
News
Sports
Weather
Current affairs
oUp-to-the
second info
oSoftware download
oSounds
oMusic
oDigital movies
oInteractive multimedia
games
oEducation tools
oOnline publishing
oSocial Media
oTexting
BRIEF HISTORY (MICROWAVE
VERSION)
Internet predates World Wide Web
Early 60’s—computer communication network in US
military
To survive a nuclear attack
ARPA What???
ARPANET
Advanced
Research
Projects
Agency
In Summary
If one or more portions of the US military networks were
destroyed, others could communicate with each other
Central Control?
Not anymore
Used to be restricted to educational and non-profit
Commercial usage growing rapidly
In the Beginning
It was unadorned and colorless
Now
Hypertext
Documents in other
Hypermedia
formats
Interactive
Self-Publishing
Blogs
RSS Feeds
Browsers
Plug-in-Programs
Access
Colleges and Universities
Internet Service Providers
Telephone Modem
Computer Dial Up
Cable Companies
High Speed
Commercial Online
Digital Subscriber Line
Services
AOL, MSN,
PDA’s Cell Phones
Texting
Browsing Your Life Away
Web Address
URL Universal Resource Locator
Slicing it Down
http://www.abc.com
www.abc.com
abc.com
Domain names or nicknames
http/www not needed any more in many instances
Surprisingly needed ALWAYS in some
Dot What?
com (commercial)
edu (educational)
gov (governement)
mil (military)
Net (networking, also for
commercial)
org (noncommercial)
biz ( business organizations)
info (unrestricted use )
int (international
organizations)
name (personal use)
net for networks
* (~NAME in URL may
indicate a personal
Homepage with no official
connections)
Country of Origin
o jp (Japan)
o iq (Iraq)
o uk (United Kingdom)
o br (Brazil)
o nl (Netherlands)
o ru (Russia)
o ca (Canada)
o cx (Christmas Island)
Handheld
Blackberries
Managing Information on the Web
Define Purpose
Make Research Plan
Only Internet
With Print?
“In-Library” Videos
Microforms?
CD-ROMS?
Databases
Research Plan
Search Engines
Google
Teoma (Ask Jeeves)
All the Web
AltaVista
Wisenut
Yahoo
Other Search Engines
Dogpile
Yippy (formerly 'Clusty')
Mahalo
Duck Duck Go
WebCrawler
Ask.com
Blekko
Webopedia Techno and Computer terms
The Internet Archive
Eleven Ways to Search without
Google-From PC Magazine Online 4/07
1. ChaCha
(http://www.chacha.com)
2. Clusty (http://clusty.com)
3. Ask.com
(http://www.ask.com)
4. Kosmix
(http://www.kosmix.com)
5. StumbleUpon
(http://www.stumbleupon.com)
6. Technorati
(http://www.technorati.com)
7. Draze
(http://www.draze.com)
8. Ms. Dewey
(http://www.msdewey.com)
9. Search With Kevin
(http://searchwithkevin.prodege
.com)
10. Rollyo
(http://www.rollyo.com)
11. NetTrekker
(http://www.nettrekker.com)-kiddies
Making the best of Search Engines
Quotation Marks
Plus and Minus Signs
Boolean Operators
Librarians’ Subject Indexes
When you care enough to search the very best. Created and
maintained by librarians. Smaller than tools such as
Google, but great places to dig for resources you won't
find elsewhere.
Librarians’ Subject Indexes
INFOMINE
23,000+ Academically-oriented Sites
INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY
BUBL Scholarly orientation from UK
KidsClick (Children)
Evaluate Any Kind of Internet Info
Author—sponsoring
How were materials included
organization?
Credentials of author,
sponsor
Expert knowledge in the
area?
Bias toward topic
at the site?
Business or Corporate
marketing?
Sales?
Does that affect content?
Advocacy Page?
Balanced viewpoints?
Technologically sophisticated?
MLA
APA
Many Many Many More
Internet Search Engines and
Beyond: Exploring the Web
Effectively
Some Search Engines
Google
www.google.com
Google
Web
Images
Groups
Directory
News
Preferences
Help
While You are In Google
Google Calculator
53.99 +24.95
Google Conversions
100 kilometers in miles
2 celsius in F
Cups in a quart
Currency Conversion
1 U.S. Dollar=
While You are In Google
Weather
Weather for Berkeley, CA
Street Maps
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA
Travel Information
Denver Airport
Stock Quotes
Type stock symbol
goog
GoogleScholar– The Newest
Revolution?
http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html
Web 1.0
Web 2.0
Web 2.0
Content Management
Collaboration (Wiki)
Publishing
Participation
Websites
Blogs
Email
Facebook
MP3
Podcast
Directories
Folksonomies
Ofoto
Flickr/ YouTube
Chatrooms
Second Life
Britannica Online
Wikipedia
Directories
Web sites that provide a large collection of links
arranged according to a classification scheme that
enables browsing by subject area
complements to search engines, not their
replacements.
What is there besides YAHOO?
Librarians' Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/)
"searchable, annotated subject directory of more than
10,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by
librarians
gives users a "a reliable and efficient guide to described
and evaluated Internet resources."
FindLaw
(http://www.findlaw.com/)
The world's most popular legal web site
Comprehensive set of legal resources on the
internet for
Lawyers
Businesses
Students
Individuals.
Great way to find free databases on any law-related
topic.
InfoMine
(http://infomine.ucr.edu)
Scholarly Internet Resource Collections from the
University of California-Riverside
Some 110,000+ sites are grouped into 12 annotated,
indexed categories for easy retrieval on this site,
including a guide to E-Journals.
About.com – Check it Out
(http://www.about.com/)
neatly organizes thousands of topics, including
Invisible Web, with good news and commentary, too.
More Invisible Web Search
Tools
Infomine
The WWWVirtual Library
Intute (UKCentric)
Complete Planet
Scirus (Scientific Information)
TechXtra (Engineering, Mathematics, Computer
Science)
Other Invisible Web
FindArticles.com (http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/PI/index.jhtml) - The "Web's
first FREE article search," FindArticles.com is a searchable archive of almost 500
published magazine and journal titles from 1998 to the present. This service provides
"articles that can be read in their entirety and printed at no cost."
Nuclear Explosions Database (http://www.agso.gov.au/databases/20010926_4.jsp)
- Australian Geological Survey Organisation database of nuclear explosions (location,
time, & size) around the world since 1945.
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer
Sequences (http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/)
"Type in a series of numbers and this database will complete the sequence and provide the
sequence name, along with its mathematical formula, structure, references, and links."
PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi)
"PubMed, a National Library of Medicine service, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE
citations...including links to sites providing full text articles and other related resources."
Explore and search the PubMed Central resource, an electronic archive for full text articles in life
sciences journal literature, offering unrestricted access to its contents.
How to Keep up with Search
Engines
Pray
Keeping Up
Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com
SearchDay Newsletter
www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/searchday.htm
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Search Engine Showdown
www.notess.com/search/
BOSTON COLLEGE RESOURCES
Research Guides
Online Databases
MetaQuest
Electronic Journals
E-Books
Resources without end
Video
Effective Internet Search: Basic Tools and Advanced
Strategies