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Searchin‘?. Got the Dot Com Blues? – here‘s a Remedy. Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University, 11 th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 13 th 2006. Searchin‘?.

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  1. Searchin‘? Got the Dot Com Blues? – here‘s a Remedy Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 13th 2006

  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 Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  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 Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  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 Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  5. Searchin‘? Plus Beta-version of: • Windows Live and meta SE: • Clusty • Exalead • Gigablast Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  6. Searchin‘? Many of these can be installed into the Firefox searchbox by: • Pull down searchbox • “add search engines” • or from http://mycroft.mozdev.org/install.html • turning Firefox into a quasi search engine Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  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 Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  8. Searchin‘? It is possible to look into the WWW “as it was” with the: • Wayback Machine Flexible search engines are • Alltheweb Livesearch • Yahoo! MindsetLive Academic Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  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 Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  10. Searchin‘? Open Access: journals / other documents 1 • BioMed Centralnot completely Open Access, but largely • Highwire Press all subjects • DOAJ all subjects • German Medical Science Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  11. Searchin‘? Open Access: journals / other documents 2 • Scielo all subjects • MEIND all subjects, metadata lead to article level • OAIster all subjects, metadata lead to article level • arXiv preprints, science Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  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 Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  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 Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  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) Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

  15. Searchin‘? Thank you for your attention,no more Dot Com Blues! Friedhelm Rump, Library, Hannover Veterinary University Foundation, 11th EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13. 09. 2006

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