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Session outline
• Search engines– Types, how they work, interrogating results
• Make your own search engine• Academic resources• Organising, referencing and annotating
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!
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
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
Activity
• Using the search engine that you use most often, search for information on:
library history in nineteenth century Britain
Search
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
Types of search engine
• Keyword• Directory• Visual results • Real time• Content specific
Netvibes page
Interrogating your results
• Meta-search engines• Comparative search engines
• International search engines
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?
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
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
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
Academic resources
• Books– Google Books, Gutenberg Project, Universal
Library, Alex, Gallica, ORB
• Journal ToCs– ticTOCs, My Favourite Journals , CiteULike Current
Issues, jOPML
Academic resources
Open Access and repositories
• Institutional: DRO, D-space at MIT• Subject specific: ArXiv, British History Online• Harvesters: OAIster, Driver, Google Scholar
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?
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
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).
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
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/
Hands on
• Look at organising your web pages using general or academic bookmarking sites
• Set up alerts for keywords or a specific page
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
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