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1 Searching the Web Concepts, Procedures, Concerns Russell K. Schutt, PhD University of Massachusetts Boston and Elizabeth Schneider, MLS Massachusetts General Hospital

2 Search Focus The scholarly literature Secondary datasets Government reports Organizational information Media Images and sounds Tools for research and teaching Discussion Reference materials

3 Access Methods Open access Institutional access Public libraries Paid access The invisible web Direct addressing Subject directories Search engines Citation management

4 Institutional Access Sites http://www.lib.umb.edu/ http://www.bpl.org/ http://www.bl.uk/services/bsds/dsc/delive ry.html http://www.bl.uk/services/bsds/dsc/delive ry.html

5 Web Warnings Clarify your goals. Tailor procedures to goals. Evaluate quality. Anticipate change. Consider generalizability Avoid addiction. Cite properly.

6 Search Engines Google Search Advanced Search Groups Images News Google Scholar Google Print DogPile AskJeeves Teoma

7 Search Engines http://google.com/ http://scholar.google.com/ http://print.google.com/ http://dogpile.com/ http://ask.com/ http://alltheweb.com/ http://altavista.com/

8 Search Directories Yahoo Social Science Information Gateway Social Sciences Virtual Library Infomine Open Directory Project SocioSite Librarian’s Index

9 Search Directory URLs http://yahoo.com/ http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/ http://dialogical.net/socialsciences/ http://infomine.ucr.edu/ http://dmoz.org/ http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/ http://lii.org/

10 Direct Addressing

11 http://www.census.gov/ http://www.fedstats.gov/ http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ http://www.ipl.org/ http://www.socialpsychology.org/ http://www.open-video.org/ http://www.pineforge.com/isw5/weblinks.htm http://www.extremesearcher.com/

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