Searching Effectively The Free Internet Magazines: EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost: A Badgerlink Database 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 option!

Saving your searches: Tools MyEBSCOhost allows you to save both documents and searches. You can also have new search results ed to you automatically. Click on “MyEBSCOhost” and sign up. MyEBSCOhost MyIntute allows you to save web searches in Intute, and to save pages you found MyIntute Delicious is a social bookmarking site. You can save an share bookmarks, and organize them with tags. Delicious Noodletools includes a “note card” feature where you can save notes and information. Noodletools

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: cards

Searching the Free Internet And EVALUATING what you find!

Choosing search tools ures/byfeature.shtml See the features of each engine ures/byfeature.shtml ures/byfeature.shtml See how to create the most effective search ures/byfeature.shtml

How do they work? Who pays for search engines? How? How do they work? How can you get them to work for you?

Metadata header for the NASA home page Want to see the metadata and the code? Click on “View” and then “source” on any web page.

Know how they work! Want to see how Google sees your search? Try the Search Wizard –

Practical Advice Use sophisticated Search Tools Be familiar with specialized and subject search tools Check out these tutorials on searching in different subject areas Use more than one Search Tool

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 Use these to search the U.S. Government Wisconsin Government In 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 Purdue University Online Writing Lab: Resources to Search the Invisible WebResources to Search the Invisible Web For more information, check out Those Dark Hiding Places (no longer updated)Those Dark Hiding Places

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 – You can’t use their tutors or databases, but you can use their free internet links! University libraries often have subject guides – 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 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!)Google

Evaluation Criteria Use a checklist Follow these links for printable checklists of evaluation information: The Virtual Chase: Teaching Legal Professionals How To Do Research – Worksheet for Evaluating Web Sites: University of Wisconsin, Madison –

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.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol. A computer program that allows html documents to move across the internet. Hypertext Markup Language. A computer programming language that allows for pictures and links. More internet vocabulary in the Internet Article in World Book Online:World Book Online mming+internet&em=ta279620a More internet vocabulary in the Internet Article in World Book Online:World Book Online mming+internet&em=ta279620a

Want to learn more about the Internet? Computer History Museum – The Living Internet – 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 – or –

Bibliography Ferrell, Keith. "Internet." World Book Advanced. World Book, Web. 2 Oct

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