1. Google Scholar and the Academic Web Ben Taylorson Academic Liaison Librarian

2. Outline Intelligent web searching Google Scholar Academic web Wider web Hidden web

3. Intelligent web searching What are you looking for? – Breadth or precision – Single document or comprehensive coverage How are you searching? – Targeted searching Combining terms = narrow search; AND is assumed OR, “phrase”, -not, ˜synonym, intitle:, site:ac.uk, date:months – Evaluating results

5. Google How to search effectively: – + include common words, letters or numbers – - excludes all results that include this search term – “phrase search” – OR for either of your search terms – intitle: only returns results that include your search term in the document's title – ~ search for multiple synonyms

6. Google Scholar Scholarly literature Articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions Advanced features – Citations, grouped articles, related articles, alerts, set up ConneXions off campus, links to Endnote downloads Google Scholar

7. Advantages over library databases More results!

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10. Advantages over library databases More results Broader range of resource types e.g. books, journal articles, theses Information from range of sources e.g. databases, publishers, OA repositories Can have better date coverage

11. Disadvantages Too many results(?) Less quality control Doesn’t index all databases Inconsistent level of bibliographic information Some non-academic document types e.g. handbooks Less developed search options and ability to limit searches

13. Hands-on Link to Google Scholar Set up preferences Search using advanced search screen Explore advanced options e.g. alerts How does it compare with library databases you use?

14. Academic resources Library catalogue, databases Generic portals – BUBL, Pinakes, Infomine, Intute BUBLIntute Subject portals – TechXtra, Voice of the Shuttle, ScirusScirus

15. Academic resources Books – Google Books, Gutenberg Project, Universal Library, Alex Google BooksAlex Journal ToCs – ZETOC, ticTOCs, My Favourite Journals, CiteULike Current Issues ZETOC

16. Academic resources Open Access and repositories Institutional: DRO, Durham e-Theses, D-space at MITDRO Subject specific: ArXiv, British History Online Harvesters: OAIster, DriverOAIster …and of course Google Scholar

17. Hands-on Try and access full text academic resources using freely available search engines and not Google Scholar Investigate some of the other online resources we have just looked at

19. The wider web Different search engines have different search options They give different results They present them in a different order – ranking depends on location of word in title, headings, frequency, proximity

20. Types of search engine Search engines vs. meta-search engines Ask, Bing, Google, Yahoo Vs. Mamma, Dogpile, Metacrawler

21. Hands-on Try a search engine you wouldn’t normally use Try a meta-search engine Look at the advanced search options Are there any results that will make you refine your search?

22. Hidden web Search engines can access only about 16% of the available information on the WWW. Many library databases are not indexed by Google Scholar and other search engines. If they are, they may not be very visible. Library web pages

23. Access to tools Handouts and slides are available at www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/training/ Most of the links mentioned in today’s session are included in the handout Or via the web page: www.netvibes.com/intelligentwebsearch#Welcomewww.netvibes.com/intelligentwebsearch#Welcome!

24. Evaluation Please fill in the evaluation sheet to let me know what you thought of this session More information Ben Taylorson – Benjamin.taylorson@durham.ac.uk Benjamin.taylorson@durham.ac.uk – or 0191 3342975 Liaison Librarian for your department – www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/ www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/