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Intelligent web searching

Intelligent web searching. Laura Jeffrey Researcher Training Librarian. Session outline. Search engines Types, how they work, interrogating results Make your own search engine Academic resources Organising, referencing and annotating. Access to tools.

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Intelligent web searching

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  1. Intelligent web searching Laura Jeffrey Researcher Training Librarian

  2. Session outline • Search engines • Types, how they work, interrogating results • Make your own search engine • Academic resources • Organising, referencing and annotating

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

  4. 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, words**in between, site:ac.uk, date:months • Evaluating results

  5. Intelligent web searching • What are you looking for? • How are you searching? • What tools are you using? • Variety of access points • Range of search engines

  6. Activity • Using the search engine that you use most often, search for information on: library history in nineteenth century Britain Search

  7. Why use another search engine? • Different results • scale of the web • the hidden web • Different order • ranking depends on location of word in title, headings, frequency, proximity • Different search options

  8. Types of search engine • Keyword • Directory • Visual results • Real time • Content specific Netvibes page

  9. Interrogating your results • Meta-search engines • Comparative search engines • International search engines

  10. Hands-on • Carry out searches relevant to your research and use the grid to record your results • Try a search engine you wouldn’t normally use • Look at the advanced search option • Are there any results that will make you refine your search? • Does a meta-search engine give you new results?

  11. Personalised search engines • Tailor to your needs before you search • Search by keywords, search engines, websites • General e.g. Clusty, Google Custom Search, Rollyo, Searchbot • Social element e.g. Eurekster and Decipho

  12. Hands-on • Set up a Google account • Create a Custom Search Engine • Bookmark or add it to your iGoogle homepage • Go back and add more pages • Try a search with it

  13. Academic resources • Full text, taster or bibliographic details • Virtual libraries • Librarians’ Index to the Internet, WWW Virtual Library • Generic portals • BUBL, Pinakes, Google Scholar, Infomine, Intute • Subject portals • TechXtra, BizSeer, Scirus • Set Google Scholar to find DUL resources

  14. Academic resources • Books • Google Books, Gutenberg Project, Universal Library, Alex, Gallica, ORB • Journal ToCs • ticTOCs, My Favourite Journals , CiteULike Current Issues, jOPML

  15. Academic resources Open Access and repositories • Institutional: DRO, D-space at MIT • Subject specific: ArXiv, British History Online • Harvesters: OAIster, Driver, Google Scholar

  16. Hands-on • Look at some of the portals and search engines that give you access to academic resources on the web • Compare these resources with those that you find from search engines • Do they highlight different/new resources?

  17. Organising the web • Online Bookmarks available from any computer • General: Backflip, delicious • Academic: bibsonomy, citeulike, Connotea, Brainify, Zotero • Collections of useful sites • page flakes, netvibes, Squidoo

  18. Referencing web pages Author (date or last updated) Title. Available at: URL (Accessed on: date). Durham University Library (6 November 2009) Intelligent web searching. Available at: http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/websearch/ (Accessed on: 13 November 2009).

  19. Annotating the web • Remember why you bookmarked a page • Highlight, add post-it notes, then bookmark and share with colleagues • Diigo, ButterFly, Protonotes, MyStickies, Wizlite

  20. Alerts Repeat your keyword searches • Google alerts www.google.com/alerts • Yahoo! alerts http://alerts.yahoo.com/ Monitor specific pages e.g. an academic’s profile • Watch that Page www.watchthatpage.com/ • Change detect www.changedetect.com/

  21. Hands on • Look at organising your web pages using general or academic bookmarking sites • Set up alerts for keywords or a specific page

  22. Conclusions • Large number of tools not all as intuitive as Google • Web searching can become a targeted and time-saving exercise • Important to organise your findings But remember… • Web is just part of suite of research tools

  23. Evaluation Please feedback your thoughts on this session www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/websearch100210 More information • Laura Jeffrey • l.k.s.jeffrey@durham.ac.uk or 0191 3342970 • Liaison Librarian for your department • www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/

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