Develop your Information Skills using Internet Resources

23/Sep/2014 Develop your Information Skills final year students 1

Instructor: Dr. Laila Samea

Assistant Professor – IST Department

LRC Director

Develop your Information Skills using

Internet Resources

Workshop for final year students

Workshop objectives:

Making your Internet searches more precise and focusing on

academic information.

Using other search tools and new technologies to improve

your results.

Evaluating what you find for research quality.

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Internet Resources & Learning

Electronic technology in general and Internet in a specific affect

our life at all levels, e.g.:

communication.

Acquiring information.

Learning & Teaching process.

Entertainment.

Work.

Shopping.


One of the most

important affect ,the

impact of Internet

resources on the

Learning process.

How can we use the Internet in our

Learning process

Seek for Information for our educational purposes (e.g., assignments, quizzes & tests examples, exercises … etc.)

Prepare a research or a project.

Browse the other educational organizations courses.

communicate with classmates & instructors.

Browse the electronic resources available on the Internet (free or subscribed).

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Be carful!! Don’t allow yourself to copy and paste from the free resources.

Define your need from information exactly.

Select the right search engines and databases.

List your important key terms (you can take them mainly

from the title of your research or the main words in the

assignment …etc.)

Formulate your search strategies.

Browse the results.

Evaluate the retrieved results.

Filter the results if needed.


Search Steps



1- Directories & categorized lists of websites:

If you want general information about a topic of

interest choose yahoo.

Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)

Advanced

search

Filter

search

results

http://search.yahoo.com/

http://www.yahoo.com/



Advanced

search

http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced?ei=UTF-8&p=computer&fr=sfp

http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced?ei=UTF-8&p=computer&fr=sfp



2- Natural language Searches: If you want answer to a question, or to browse the another

asked questions in the same topic choose Ask. Ask(www.ask.com)

Quick

answers

http://www.ask.com/

http://www.ask.com/

http://www.ask.com/

http://www.ask.com/

http://www.ask.com/


3- Keyword Searches If you want information in a subject with limited

available information choose Google

Google (www.google.com)

Select the right search engines and databases (cont.,).

http://www.google.com/

List your important key terms


(you can take them mainly from the title of your research

or the main words in the assignment …etc.).

Examples:

Get information about the following :

-What are the differences between AMD & Intel Processors.

-The Impact of Information Technology on the marketing.



Formulate your search strategies.

Search strategies tools

Simple Search Advanced Search Browsing

How to Improve your search process


Describe your search as completely as you can.

What are the differences between AMD & Intel Processors.

Add quotation marks to limit your search and retrieve more related websites. E.g.,: “Corporate Finance”

Limit your search Domain: site: om

Corporate Finance site: gov.om

Choose advanced search technique

Choose Certain File types as you need: filetype: PPT, PDF, DOC…etc.

Use three dots to indicate Numerical ranges: …

e.g., “Sur University College” 2005…2013.

If you want a definition write: define:

e.g., define: human-computer interaction.

Go to Google translator if you want a translation to the

word/words.



Filter your

results





Limit your

search

https://www.google.com/preferences?hl=ar

https://www.google.com/preferences?hl=ar



Advanced

Search in

Google

https://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=ar





Google

scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

http://scholar.google.com/



http://scholar.google.com/scholar_settings?sciifh=1&hl=ar&as_sdt=0,5



Examples

http://books.google.com/



Google

Books

Other Useful Resources for Effective

Web Search


Wikipedia – free encyclopaedia in the Internet

• Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary

http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

•Cambridge Dictionaries Online

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

• DOAJ a free database includes till now 1524368 articles in

9949 journals in all disciplines http://doaj.org

Springer Link

http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-

type=%22ReferenceWork%22

Open Educational Materials (e.g., MIT)

http://wikipedia.org/

http://wikipedia.org/




http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

http://www.doaj.org/

http://www.doaj.org/

http://doaj.org/

http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22ReferenceWork%22










Free

database

in all

disciplines



http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/#C


Free

journals

http://jfec.oxfordjournals.org/

http://jfec.oxfordjournals.org/

(Oxford e-Journals)



As soon as you retrieve the results, try to assess them according to

their relationship to your search needs.

Confirm that there isn’t any missing information.

Check if there any extra information you don’t need them.

Ask yourself if you need more results.

Try to record the complete reference to the resources and don’t

forget to record the URL and the date of access.(you can make a

note in which place in your research you will refer to this resource)


Evaluate your results

Be carful and

avoid the

plagiarism

References

Hilla Wait and Colin Cook Philosophy & Theology Faculties Library.

An introduction to Information Skills for graduate students in

theology. Available at

<http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/15

5798/THEO-Infoskills-presentation-for-grads-2013.pdf>

Web search. Available at:

<http://www.csub.edu/~jross/classes/GS390/Internet/WEB_SE

ARCHING/WebSearch.ppt>


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