Some%20Useful%20Search%20Strategies

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Some Useful Search Strategies

• Building Blocks -gt Analyze and Associate
• Citation Pearl Growing -gt Find the Hub
• Interactive Scanning -gt Forward and Backward
  Chaining
• Others -gt Use Unique Words, Phrase Search,
  Boolean etc.

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Recommend Steps for search

• ANALYZE your topic to decide where to begin
• Pick the right starting place by defining your
  topics features
• Learn as you go VARY your approach with what
  you learn
• Don't bog down in any strategy that doesn't work.
  
• Return to previous strategies better informed

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Tips for analyzing your topic-- Does your topic

• Have distinctive words or phrases?
• Seek an overview or cover a broad topic?
• Specify a narrow aspect of a broad or common
  topic?
• Have synonymous, equivalent terms, or variant
  spellings or endings that need to be included?
• Have you a little confused? NEED guidance.

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Defind YOUR TOPIC'S FEATURES

• Search Engines Meta-Search Engines
• Google, AltaVista, Nothernlight Power
• Copernic, http//www.copernic.com

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Defind YOUR TOPIC'S FEATURES

• Subject Directories Gateway Pages
• Librarians Index, www. lii.org
• Informine, informine.ucr.edu
• Academic Info, www. academicinfo.net
• About.com, www.about.com
• AlphaSearch, www.calvin.edu/library/searreso/inter
  net/as/

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Defind YOUR TOPIC'S FEATURES

• Specialized Databases Invisible Web
• http//www.searchability.com/popular.htm
• Find an Expert
• Email the author
• Discussion Group,e.g. Liszt(www.topica.com)
• An expert

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Boolean

• BOOLEAN LOGIC
• Way to combine terms using "operators" such as
  "AND," "OR," "AND NOT" and sometimes "NEAR." AND
  requires all terms appear in a record. OR
  retrieves records with either term.
• children AND television AND violence
• biomedical engineering AND NOT department of
• (women OR female) AND networking

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Truncation

• Children, child, childhood
• Use Child
• See the specific instructions for each search
  tool.

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Sub-searching

• Censorship as an aspect of Ethics in Journalism
• Search Censorship and Journalism Ethics at the
  same time

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Evaluation of Information Sources

• Will discuss latter

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IV.How to Find Information on the Internet
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How Much Information?

• The Largest Library in the World
• Search 118 million items
• The Largest Database in the World
• Search 900 million full-texts
• The Largest Search Engine in the World
• Search 1,345 million web pages

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Complexity of the Web

• Media
• Text, image, sound, audio, music, video ...
• Subjects
• Sci tech, business, news ...
• Structures
• Descriptive, procedural, semantic ...
• Systems
• Email, WWW, database ...
• Goals
• Communication, entertainment, education ...
• Cultures
• Demographic, language, habits ...

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Internet Resources with Various Subjects

• Search engines, e.g. Yahoo
• Computer industry, e.g. Microsoft, Adobe, SUN,
  Apple, IBM, HP, Intel
• Media, e.g. CNN
• Business, e.g. Bloomberg Online
• Newspapers, e.g. USA Today, New York Times,
  Washington Post
• Government, e.g. White House

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Internet Resources with Various Subjects

• Sci Tech, e.g. NASA
• Bookstores, e.g. Amazon
• Natural Sci, e.g. MapQuest, The Weather Channel,
  Nature
• Entertainment, e.g. Disney, MTV, Discovery
• Sport, e.g. ESPNET sportzone, NBA

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Internet Resources with Various Subjects

• Travel, e.g. City Net
• Medical Sci, e.g. NIH, NLM
• Professional societies, e.g. IEEE, ACM
• Libraries, e.g. NLM, LC
• Magazine, e.g. Wall Street Journal
• University, e.g. UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT
• Arts, e.g. Smithsonian Institution
• Publishing, e.g. Macmillian Computer Publishing,
  DK Internet Resources with Various Subjects

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Different Web Search Models

• Yahoo, Kimo
• Manual recommendation in index space
• AltaVista, Openfind
• Full-text pattern matching in document space
• Google
• Citation information in document space
• AskJeeves
• QA (or FAQ search) in specific domains
• Others
• metacrawler, want2, AltaVista, FindSounds,
  northernlight, toget, dejanews, mySimon etc.

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