Download 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
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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
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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
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http/www not needed any more in many instances
Surprisingly needed ALWAYS in some
Dot What?
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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
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(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
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(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
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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."
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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/)
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"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)
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"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