ERCIM/W4G 3rd International W4G Workshop for those interested in WWW technical design issues, in particular searching andactive there will be the option of breaking into topicspecific subgroups if http://www.cwi.nl/ERCIM/W4G/Helsinki/
Extractions: The ERCIM World Wide Web Working Group (W4G) is holding an open workshop for those interested in WWW technical design issues, in particular searching and active documents. This third ERCIM/W4G international workshop on the World Wide Web will be held 5-7 June 1995 in Helsinki, Finland. June 5th (13.00-16.00), June 6th (9.00-16.00) and June 7th (9.00-12.00). Location: VTT, Tekniikantie 4 C, 4th floor meeting room. VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) is the largest and most versatile research institute in the Nordic countries. It is an independent non-profit organization with the staff of 2600. It is divided into nine research institutes. VTT's clients and cooperation partners are industrial enterprises, other companies and businesses, universities and research institutes. VTT is situated in Otaniemi, Espoo, about 8 km from the centre of Helsinki. The distance from Helsinki-Vantaa airport is about 25 km. The best way to come from the airport to VTT or the hotels is to take an airport taxi/Yellow line. A regular taxi is more expensive. There is also a frequent bus connection between the airport and Helsinki centre.
Traffick.com - Searching For A Better Way #5 - Expert Guide Sites Expert Soup Andrew's METAGUIDE searching for a Better Way 5 - Expert Guide buildingnew features onto the existing platform of 700 topic-specific guide sites http://www.traffick.com/story/08-2000/5bettersearch-expert.asp
Extractions: Andrew's METAGUIDE - Searching for a Better Way #5 - Expert Guide Sites These days, it seems, someone is always trying to teach us something. Turn on your TV, and someone we don't know personally is trying to teach us about our relationships. Tony Robbins is selling his services as your "personal success coach." (Save your money. His formula is: (1) Be 6'10"; (2) Shave hourly; (3) Smile a lot.) And then there's Ann Landers, the lady who popularized the acronym "MYOB" but never found herself short on advice in any field, particularly when it came to people's personal business. The world-famous meta-expert from Illinois would occasionally consult a District Attorney or the Surgeon General when stumped, but most of the time we got the feeling that she was pretty much winging it. While there may be an oversupply of experts these days, people do seem to be increasingly interested in making use of experts. They save us time by staying focused on one thing. It seems natural, then, that the popularity of various web-based "expert services" is soaring. They now come in many flavors.
UCLA Library - Searching For And Evaluating Web Resources Keyword searching. Keyword searching is a good approach when you need informationon a particular topic or need answers to specific questions. http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/tutorials/searchweb.html
Extractions: UCLA Biomed Library Quick Link to Resources A-Z listing of all resources ORION2 (UCLA Catalog) MELVYL Catalog (All UC) Periodical Titles (All UC) PubMed@UCLA MEDLINEplus NLM Gateway AccessMedicine Cochrane Library Current Protocols Harrison's Online MD Consult MICROMEDEX Sci Am Medicine (via STAT!Ref) STAT!Ref (IE 5.0+ or NS 6.0+) BIOSIS (life sciences) CINAHL (nursing) PsycINFO (psychology) ABI Inform (business) Cambridge Scientific Abs. Current Contents ERIC Expanded Academic ASAP INSPEC LEXIS-NEXIS MOFR (Marine Biology) National Newspaper Index Science Citation Index Social Sci. Citation Index Sociological Abstracts Web of Science Zoological Record Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library General Information FAQ Reserves Tutorials ... Contact Us How to Find Articles How to Locate Books Using ORION2 By Subject How to Locate Books Using CDL MELVYL Catalog By Author By Title How to Locate Journals Using ORION2 Using the CDL Periodicals Titles Database Biomedical Library Call Number Locations Biomedical Library Shelving List by Subject For example, if you select the category
Small Professional Topic-Specific Directories if you can find the directory which lists those smaller topicspecific directories,so useful for both promoting your site and your special Internet searching. http://www.smithfam.com/news/mar01w.html
Extractions: Many people in today's high tech world use the Internet as a tool to find or sell any specific product, service or information. One person can be a webmaster and a consumer at the same time. Let's talk about how your Internet search affects both categories of Internet users: webmasters, who offer services, products or information and consumers, who are just looking for those services, products or information. 90% of Internet users use major search engines and directories for Internet searches. Lets break the topic into two major categories of Internet users - webmasters and users. WEBMASTERS AND SEARCH ENGINES The good thing about search engines is that they are big. They have huge traffic. They have big databases with millions of links. If you can come up on top of the search result, then you are a winner. If you cannot, well, it does not matter. I am not going to start on big companies with millions of dollars of marketing budget. I will talk about small businesses that represent 95% of e-commerce today. The thing that is not so good about search engines is that your position in search results depends on many factors. It is not a secret that it is not easy to get your site listed on top of major search engines. The right keyword is what you gets you there. Note that there is only one or two keywords which place your site high on the list. If a user types this word along with any other word your site may be listed anywhere between 1,000 and 10,000 search results or, what is even worse, you may not even get into the search result at all. Actually, both results do not matter for you anyway, because we all know that the listing after the first 100 positions does not affect your traffic.
Internet Searching Course 2 Tips and Tricks for Metasearching; How to find Listservs; Evaluating Your Results.If you are having trouble finding information on a specific topic, please feel http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Miner/Educ/NetSearch.html
Extractions: (Course 2) This page is designed as a review and reference for those who have already taken the Edward G. Miner Library's "Internet Searching (Course 2)." If you would like to sign up for this class, check out our list of classes to see when the next class is offered. If you are having trouble finding information on a specific topic, please feel free to call our Reference desk at 275-2487. Or you could complete an online form for a customized literature search or just a general reference question [Overview], [Selecting the right tool] [A good place to start] [Directories] [Search Engines] ... [Evaluating Your Results] If you have used Miner's Ovid system to search Medline or the UR's Voyager system to search the holdings of UR libraries, then you have used a searching tool. A search tool is something that helps you find specific information you're looking for in a large database of information. In the case of Ovid and Voyager, these are tools designed to search a specific database which has been created with an organized structure.
Choose The Best Search For Your Information Needs While searching, use iLOR mouseover to collect useful sites or Indexes 90,000 searchabledatabases Geniusfind topic-specific databases and search engines http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.ht
Extractions: displayHeader(""); Information Literacy: Search Strategies Choose the Best Search for your Information Need View the Tutorial on Finding News Printer-friendly version (requires Adobe Acrobat) Information need Search strategy I need a few good hits fast Google - fast search, large index. Uses "collective judgment" to order results. View a cached page if site unavailable. Ixquick - metasearch using phrases, Boolean, wildcards, capitals. Weighs value of hits by using major engines' top ten results. About 10% paid listings. I have a broad academic subject and need pointers to quality sites. Librarians' Index to the Internet - "thinking person's Yahoo" with weekly updates. Infomine - librarian-selected directory with flexible search options. I have a popular or commercial topic Yahoo - commercial "tree" of generally unevaluated user submissions. I need to focus my search. Before searching, fill-in template. Choose options like Boolean or phrase, domain, timeframe or date: AltaVista Search Assistant HotBot SuperSearch - added options: language, media type, page depth.
Internet Basics -- Where To Begin Searching your search by adding additional terms to your original topic. Lycos, You want tosearch for specific kinds of of where you begin, treat searching the Internet http://www.unf.edu/~alderman/TheInternet/WhereToBegin.html
Extractions: Where To Begin Searching Related Information: Search Strategies Where To Begin Searching Getting What You Need Also at this site: The Internet What It Is. The World Wide Web What It Is. HTML Presenting Ideas and Providing Information on the Web. An Internet Vocabulary. Deciding where to begin searching the Web for information is probably one of the most difficult tasks you'll face when you decide the Internet may have the information you need. Reviews of search engines and Internet directories may help you to decide, but the reviewers change their minds almost as regularly as Web sites come and go. One day AltaVista may be king of the hill, the next day HotBot , the next day Excite or Go.com . The criteria reviewers use for evaluating search engines usually revolve around how comprehensively the engine covers the Web, how easy it is for a user to construct a search, and how often and consistently the engine returns relevant content. For a more objective and down to business look at what the search engines do, how they do it, and how consistently they do what they do, spend some time browsing Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch Web site. Sullivan keeps a vigilant watch on what is happening in Internet searching and provides vital statistics on all the major services. For a small fee, you can contribute to the upkeep of his excellent site and have access to subscriber insights that aren't readily available anywhere else.
Literature Searching For Your Project The specific thesaurus of terms for each database will be 7. Review progress aftersearching 4 or so sources. which is likely to be relevant to your topic? http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/libdocs/ml-rs17.html
Extractions: ML-RS17 A review of the literature is important for a research project because it enables you to acquire an understanding of your topic, with its key issues, and an awareness of relevant research that has already been conducted. Exploring and selecting from the vast array of published information can be a time-consuming task, so it is important to know how to plan and carry out this work effectively. The aim of this guide is to help you to do this. You need to work systematically through the following stages. Clarify the meaning of the topic and/or particular words. Dictionaries relating to the subject may be useful here. If the area/topic is a large one you may need to choose a specific aspect. Bear in mind any resources constraints like time; support available; library resources; and the length of the paper to be written. Define your topic in terms of words to search for in the various information sources. Think of words that may be used as alternatives for your topic e.g.
Basic Searching Basic searching. youre creating what's called a search strategy a set of termsstated in such a way that the computer retrieves items on a specific topic. http://library.webster.edu/wbt/t-p4-01.html
Extractions: A strategy involves making specific plans designed to achieve specific results. In the world of research, any time you search a database youre creating what's called a search strategy : a set of terms stated in such a way that the computer retrieves items on a specific topic. Search strategies can be as simple as entering a keyword or as complex as using Boolean operators truncation controlled vocabulary , or fielded searches and limits . Simple or complex, search strategies are all about making the computer understand exactly what youre looking for. Before you search a database, it's best to brainstorm for keywords that describe your topic. One easy way to do this is to phrase your topic as a question, then identify keywords from the question. For example, if you are trying to do research on the kinds of special training teachers need when they have autistic children in their classrooms, you might write the following question: In the above example, the keywords are circled in red. These keywords are the basis for your search strategy. We all know that computers cant think and dont understand written English. Computers understand their own language and when youre searching databases, its important to phrase your searches so that the computer understands. The next sections explain how to translate these keywords into a search expression the computer can work with by using
Guide To Searching IBISWEB research topic, search multidisciplinary and subjectspecific databases. ConsultReference Desk staff for assistance in selecting and searching databases. http://www.library.miami.edu/guides/ibisguide.html
Extractions: IBISWEB is the Web-based library catalog of the University of Miami and contains the holdings of the Otto G. Richter Library as well as the holdings of several other UM libraries Architecture, Business, Marine Science, Math, Music, and the Lowe Art Museum libraries. IBIS (which stands for Integrated Bibliographic Information System) is the text-based version of the catalog and is available via telnet access. IBISWEB and IBIS contain the SAME information - you are accessing the same database. IBISWEB provides quick, efficient, up-to-date access to bibliographic, location, and availability information for more than 2 million resources including books, periodical titles, microforms, government publications and maps from 1976 to the present, UM theses and dissertations, music scores and sound recordings, audiovisual materials, computer software, and databases. IBISWEB includes hyperlinks to World Wide Web resources such as electronic journals and texts, databases, reference and statistical resources the graphical point-and-click Web interface allows users to link to these resources directly. IBISWEB DOES NOT include citations to ARTICLES published in newspapers, magazines, and journals. To find citations to individual articles on your specific research topic, search multidisciplinary and subject-specific databases. Consult Reference Desk staff for assistance in selecting and searching databases.
Tasmanian Events - Searching specific organisational and topic calendars are also provided, and the contentof these specific Events Calendars are managed by their respective owners. http://tasevents.tased.edu.au/
Extractions: Place Region Municipality [All] Austins Ferry Avoca Bagdad Beaconsfield Beauty Point Bellerive Berriedale Bicheno Bothwell Bream Creek Bridport Brighton Bronte Park Bruny Island Burnie Cambridge Campania Campbell Town Carrick Chigwell Chudleigh Claremont Clarence Cockle Creek Colebrook Coles Bay Collinsvale Coningham Cradle Valley Cressy Currie Cygnet Deloraine Derby Derwent Park Deviot Devonport Dodges Ferry Dover Dowsing Point Dunalley Dunorlan Epping Forest Eugenana Evandale Exeter Fingal Forth Franklin Gawler Geeveston George Town Glenorchy Golconda Golden Valley Goodwood Granton Grassy Greens Beach Gunns Plains Hadspen Hamilton Hobart Huntingfield Huonville Jericho Kempton Kingston Latrobe Launceston Lenah Valley Liawenee Lillico Lilydale Lindisfarne Longford Lutana Margate Middleton Midway Point Miena Mole Creek Montrose Moonah Mornington New Norfolk New Town Nietta North Hobart Nubeena Oatlands Orford Ouse Penguin Perth Poatina Pontville Port Arthur Port Sorell Prince of Wales Bay Queenstown Railton Ranelagh Richmond Ringarooma Rokeby Rosebery Rosevears Rosny Ross Sandford Sandy Bay Savage River Scamander Scottsdale Sheffield Sisters Beach Smithton Snug Sorell Spreyton Springfield St Helens St Marys Stanley Strahan Strathgordon Sulphur Creek Swansea Triabunna Tullah Tunnack Turners Beach Ulverstone Warrane Wesley Vale Westbury Whitemark Winnaleah
Help For Searching Specific Fields Document Date Format for searching must be YYYYMMDD. Document Category topic areasinto which records may fit the rest of the number scheme is sitespecific. http://www.osti.gov/html/osti/opennet/o_db_dsc.html
Extractions: Here's a quick look at examples of how to input information into the OpenNet fields. For more information, click on the choices listed after this quick overview. Or, you may click here to move immediately to the table of contents for specific field searching help. Originating Org: This field refers to organizations responsible for producing the original document Click here to see list of originating organizations used in database. Location of Doc: Where you can obtain copies of original document. Click here to see list of locations used in database. Document Number: Report Number or other identifying number assigned by originating organization. Do not include any dashes, periods, hyphens, etc. in your search. Simply run all numbers and letters together into one string.
Help For Searching Specific Fields Document Category topic areas into which records may fit Metallurgy (NOTE Thisfield will be Table of Contents for specific Field searching Help. http://www.osti.gov/html/osti/opennet/fieldhlp.html
Extractions: Here's a quick look at examples of how to input information into the OpenNet fields. For more information, click on the choices listed after this quick overview. Or, you may click here to move immediately to the table of contents for specific field searching help. Title: waste waste AND disposal waste ADJ disposal waste AND (disposal OR removal) waste* Report on the Safe Disposal of Radioactive Waste Author: smith Subject Terms: Same examples as used for title field would work here. Click here to see list of actual terms used in database. Addressee (s): This field refers to persons or organizations to whom letters and/or memoranda may be addressed. Input examples are: smith Originating Org: This field refers to organizations responsible for producing the original document. Click here to see list of originating organizations used in database. Location of Doc: Where you can obtain copies of original document. Click
Searching The Internet When searching with a spider, start with a very specific search. of a Usenet posthelps identify which posts are really serious about a topic, the title http://www.mattkruse.com/info/search/
Extractions: Using Yahoo ... Home "So, you want to find something on Internet. Join the club." PLEASE NOTE: I will be updating this page when I get the opportunity. Google is currently the best search engine for the web by a wide margin. Also, recently Google purchased Deja News and the Deja search interface no longer functions. When I figure out what is going to happen with that, I will update the search forms and this page. Sorry for any inconvenience. But you also know that there is more information available out there than you can possibly handle, and most of it is just junk. Of course, there are tons of companies out there trying to make millions by offering you sites that will search all the sites on the Web and hopefully give you something useful back. But do they really help you? Is this really the best way to find the information you're looking for? Maybe not. I do a lot of searching on Internet. For specific answers, for general web sites, for people, for software updates, and just about anything else I might want to know. Over the last 5 years, I've found what works and what doesn't, and how to get what I want as quickly as possible. Hopefully I can help you be a bit and turn your hours of 'browsing' into results. And there will be no sales pitches.
UNLV Architecture Studies Library - Searching Periodicals searching books and periodical titles provided general materials on searching. Indexeslist articles by topic. Architecture/landscape/interiors specific. http://library.nevada.edu/arch/instr/periodicals.html
Extractions: Back to Online Instruction What is a periodical? Which is the best index Why periodical articles? ... Commonly Used Links Module 5: Searching: periodical articles on a topic The module "Searching: books and periodical titles" provided general materials on searching. This module seeks to present materials specialized to architecture and allied disciplines, while still addressing those basic truths like What is a periodical! In addition to learning which indexes will help you find articles in the field of architecture, you will be given a step-by-step outline of how to use architecture online indexes. What is a periodical? A periodical is published more than once a year. You may know it by the name "magazine" or "journal." Periodicals which get a lot of use in the Architecture Studies Library include , and World of Interiors Why periodical articles? You may need/want to find periodical articles for several reasons: the topic is too new or too narrow to have a book written about it; a designer or building may be covered in a magazine but not a book; a book may actually have too much information, whereas an article is short and can cover the highlights;
SEARCH - Science Watch® searching for Fur will match the lowercase fur , uppercase FUR To make sure thata specific word is always included in your search topic, place the http://www.sciencewatch.com/search.html
Browsing Vs. Searching Browsing vs. searching. There are two ways to find things Browsing and searching.If you are not looking for any specific topic, then you can browse. http://www.nnh.org/cyfernet/tutorial/browse.htm
Extractions: Browsing vs. Searching There are two ways to find things: Browsing and Searching . If you are not looking for any specific topic, then you can browse . If you are looking for a specific topic then you can search . The idea behind each of the two "finding" strategies is shown in fig(1). Fig(1) Browsing: The desired information is located by selecting topics of interest. When one begins to browse, he/she selects increasingly more specific topics from menus until finding the information of interest. Exercise: Click here to practice browsing and press the Back to Search tutorial button to return to the tutorial. When you are ready for browsing, you can go to the CYFERnet home page for browsing. Searching A popular method to search the Web is called keyword searching or simply searching . There are special automated software programs called Spiders that search all over the web for the documents containing the keywords you entered. These are much faster than the human experts in gathering the information, but the quality of the documents retrieved cannot be assured. These Spiders periodically revisit the sites to gather additional/changed information. This method avoids the numerous clicks that are involved while stepping through the menus in Browsing.
Internet 800 Directory - News Letter Archive Internet 800 Directory (a topic specific search engine). 2. Choose your search wordswith care. If you need a new needle for your jukebox, searching for just http://inter800.com/news800/archive/02-05-10.html
Extractions: 03. Tip Of The Week-Launch Windows Explorer *01 Searching Tips Welcome to The Internet 800 Directory Newsletter. This Sunday is Mothers Day. My best wishes to Mothers everywhere on their special day. If you would like some Mothers Day history visit: http://www.holidays.net/mother/story.htm Several years back, George and I used to play scavenger hunt on the Internet. The concept of the game was simple. Create an extremely difficult trivia question and then race to find the answer using the Internet. Learning how to search and what search engines to use became critical in playing the game. Here are a couple of basic tips that can help you find what you are looking for when using a search engine. -1. Make sure the search engine that you are using includes the information you are looking for. Some search pages are topic specific and could be of no use to you. Today, in my opinion, the best general search engine is Google, but if you want a toll free number, you should use the Internet 800 Directory (a topic specific search engine). -2. Choose your search words with care. If you need a new needle for your jukebox, searching for just needle or jukebox will provide too many returns to be useful. However if you combine the words it narrows down the return and if you add the manufacturer to the search (Rockola jukebox needle) you find just what you need. I find it better to start with long search strings and remove words if needed.
Tips For Web Searching General Guidelines for searching. For specific topics, use a search engine. Ifyou find little or nothing on a specific topic, try a metasearch engine. http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/websearch/tips.html
Extractions: Most Web search sites are easy to use, but there are a few specific search techniques and general guidelines that will help you to search more effectively. Simply enter your search terms and the search engine will provide a list of links to pages that contain your terms. Most search engines will even let you enter your search as a "natural language" statement, for example, What is the capital of Maryland . This is the same as if you had entered capital maryland . The search engine simply ignores common words and searches only key terms. The "relevancy" part of the process happens when the search engines returns a list of links to pages that contain your search terms. Search engines use a variety of measures to determine which pages are most "relevant," including how many of terms are contained on the page, if they appear as a phrase, how many times the term(s) appears on the page, and even how many other pages link to the page that contains your terms. Pages that satisfy all or many of these criteria are ranked first in your results list. Pages that meet fewer are criteria are placed lower in the list. This approach can work well for many searches, but it often results in hundreds or thousands of pages retrieved. To make the most of relevancy searching, examine only the first 20 or 30 items retrieved by your search. If these pages aren't useful, then try a difference combination of terms or use another search engine.
