1. Got the Dot Com Blues? – here‘s a Remedy
Searchin‘?
Got the Dot Com Blues? – here‘s a Remedy
First let me introduce you to the contents
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2. Searchin‘?
In order to make searching easier and possibly more effective, this is an update and a quick tour of
Search Engines
Toolbars
Extensions
Free Databases
Repositories
In the Google-World it may seem unnecessary, but comparison of search engines tells us a few things.
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3. Searchin‘?
Two or more different Search Engines do not yield congruent results, see here:
Dogpile Search Comparison Tool
Googleguy
Jux2
Twingine
and this unique comparison tool
Thumbshots Ranking
What does it tell us then?
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4. Searchin‘?
This strongly suggests the use of more than one search engine, the major SE being:
Ask.com
Google
MSN Search
Yahoo! Search
all four are searched in:
Dogpile
Plus „click“
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5. Searchin‘? Plus Beta-version of: Windows Live and meta SE: Clusty
Exalead
Gigablast
How can we make this more convenient?
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6. Searchin‘?
Many of these can be installed into the Firefox searchbox by:
Pull down searchbox
“add search engines”
or from
turning Firefox into a quasi search engine
But let‘s go back to more search engines
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7. Searchin‘? A closer look at Google reveals among others:
Google Book Search (for books)
Google Scholar (for scientific use)
and a closer look at Windows Live Search:
Windows Live Academic
Over to search engines with special features
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8. Searchin‘? It is possible to look into the WWW “as it was” with the:
Wayback Machine
Flexible search engines are
Alltheweb Livesearch
Yahoo! Mindset Live Academic
Next are databases which look like search engines or search engines which look like databases; well they are really both like every search engine is.
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9. Searchin‘? These special search engines or databases are for Science.
Scirus by Elsevier
E-Biosci a variable search engine
Science.gov various subjects / databases
Biotoolbar database-extension to Firefox
Deff Danish Electronic Research Library
One step further we arrive at
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10. Searchin‘? Open Access: journals / other documents 1
BioMed Central not completely Open Access, but largely
Highwire Press all subjects
DOAJ all subjects
German Medical Science
and
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11. Searchin‘? Open Access: journals / other documents 2 Scielo
all subjects
MEIND
all subjects, metadata lead to article level
OAIster
arXiv
preprints, science
You might also want to look into
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12. Searchin‘? Directories of E-journals and Databases
EZB, Electronic Journals Library
all subjects
CiteULike
a journals directory, a citation tool and a search engine for articles with link resolver on one site in one page
DBIS
all subjects, metadata lead to article level
Further there are
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13. Searchin‘? Gateways / Virtual Libraries vascoda
MedPilot Virtual Library of Medicine
The virtual library of Veterinary Medicine and General Parasitology
The Virtual Library of Pharmacy
and
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14. Searchin‘? Gateways / Virtual Libraries 2
Intute: Health and Lifesciences: Medicine (formerly OMNI)
Intute: Health and Lifesciences: Veterinary
(formerly Vetgate)
Intute: Health and Lifesciences: Bioresearch (formerly BioResearch)
All of these being put to good use you may forget about the
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15. Thank you for your attention, no more Dot Com Blues!
Searchin‘?
Thank you for your attention, no more Dot Com Blues!
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