Search Strategy

Search Strategy Presented by

Dr. Angelina P. Resurreccion Director of Libraries, Rizal Technological University Lecturer : UE, BU, PUP July 16, 2008 Jose Rizal University, Shaw Blvd, Mandaluyong City Sponsored by OCLC

Search Strategy in Using the Internet Search engines : Google Yahoo msn Other websites Web Harvesting Purpose Digitize information

The internet… The Internet or the Web is the largest online source of information available. It is spread over millions of web pages. The problems posed by such a wealth of information are: how to find the right information in the World Wide Web quickly and easily, and how to preserve them.

*World Wide Web, also called WWW and the Web, is only a part of the Internet.

What is Web harvesting? Web harvesting is the act of data collection off Web sites, typically for data analysis. An implementation of a Web crawler that uses human expertise or machine guidance to direct the crawler to URLs which compose a specialized collection or set of knowledge.

Web harvesting is also known as Web farming, Web mining and Web scraping, sometimes also called as crawling or spidering.

Purpose of Web Harvesting To capture materials in danger of disappearing.

To capture a particular event, or moment in time.

To build a collection of similar or related materials.

Approaches to Web Harvesting Subject-based crawl Event-based crawl Format-based crawl **web crawler = (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner.

Can you use Search Engines ?

Search Engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system.

Results of Subject Search for Rizal Technological University (Google)

Other Sites with Free Access

Dictionaries and Thesaurus Encyclopedias Almanacs Citation Manuals Books Serial Articles Specialized fields

Dictionaries and Thesaurus American Heritage Dictionary 4th Ed. 2000. Includes over 90,000 entries, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes, and word-root appendixes. http://www.bartleby.com/61/ Dictionary.com Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and reference guide, crossword puzzles and other word games, online translator and Word of the Day. http://dictionary.reference.com/ Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. Contains 35,000 synonyms in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. http://www.bartleby.com/62/

Encyclopedias Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia English-language version

of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia built and edited by users. Find encyclopedia entries on almost any topic. Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2001.Contains over 50,000 articles, 40,000 bibliographic citations and 80,000 crossreferences. http://www.bartleby.com/65/ The Encyclopedia of World History, Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns’s comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millennia from prehistoric times to the year 2000. http://www.bartleby.com/67/

Encarta Encyclopedia. An abridged version of the award-winning Encarta Encyclopedia on CD-ROM, as well as a dictionary and atlas service. http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_0/Encyclopedia_Arti cles.html#tcsel

Almanacs…….. Infoplease Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet. http://www.infoplease.com/

World Factbook The U.S. government's complete

geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data. http://education.yahoo.com/reference/factbook

http://www.nap.edu/about/availpdf.phtml This site allows you to read more than 3000 books for free.

ILOSearch offers searching through 27,000+ documents http://www.informedlibrarian.com/

Free Online Access to scientific publications www.inasp.info

http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm This annotated webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that were freely available on the Internet as of April 2005.

http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1

The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.

http://www.doaj.org/home

http://aera-cr.asu.edu/links.html

www.lesley.edu/faculty/kholmes/libguides/edjournals.html

http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

http://www.freefulltext.com/

OPEN ACCESS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS Aardvarknet.info (Asian Resources for Librarians) provides direct links to various free Asian online databases and fulltext electronic journals. Searchable and browsable. Subjects include library and information science, medical sciences, social sciences, agriculture, education, science and technology. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics is a bimonthly publication of the International Press, publishing papers on all areas in which theoretical physics and mathematics interact with each other. AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture). It is an initiative to provide free access to 474 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. Bioline International. Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing access to quality research journals published in developing countries. Publishes in the following areas: health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. Features 30 peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe. Many journals are available free of charge. BioMed Central. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. Approximately 130 titles are available full text. Subject areas include biology and biomedicine. BUBL Information Services. A national (UK oriented) information service for the higher education community. Links to over 10,000 quality Internet resources covering all subject areas, and sub-divided by type. Search or browse. Excellent for tracking down UK institutions.

CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer indexes the full-text of the entire articles and citations. Full boolean, phrase and proximity search is supported D-Lib Magazine is a solely electronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a database of the University of Lund (Sweden) which provides access to quality controlled scientific Open Access Journals covering several subject areas. Open access journals use a funding model that does not charge the readers. Approximately 1,670 titles are available in full text. Currently 414 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 76,402 articles are included in the DOAJ service. EdResearch Online is produced by ACER Cunningham Library. 70% of the documents are linked to freely available full text documents. Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL). Led by Open Society Institute/Soros foundcation network. It provides links to different full-text journals in the Internet. Electronic Journal Miner. Search for e-journals at this site using keywords, or browse ejournals by title or by LC subject headings; you can limit searches to (i) free publications, (2) peer-reviewed publications. Hosted by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. The database currently contains 6,960 titles. FindArticles is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. FreeFulltext.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists. Date coverage is from 1997 to 2003. Journals are arranged by title.

Free Medical Journals is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. It lists a large number of medical journals that currently provide free full-text access on the WWW. Google Scholar. It enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web." Hartford Institute for Religion Research. It is research based information on the social scientific study of religion. HighWire Press, Internet Imprint of the Standford University Libraries. Over 15 million articles from over 4,500 PubMed journals, including 939,111 free full text articles and from 868 HighWire-hosted journals. Covering several subject areas. HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative). It provides free or very low cost online access to 2300 major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, non-profit and academic institutions in the health sector in 113 developing countries. INASP Guide to Open Access Resources. Led by International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP). Over 17,000 full-text journals in all disciplines from major publishers. OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service which aims to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-toaccess, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone. It has 5,740, 091 records from 522 different institutions.

PLoS Biology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization committed to making scientific and medical literature a public resource. PLoS Genetics reflects the full breadth and interdisciplinary nature of genetics and genomics research by publishing outstanding original contributions in all areas of biology. PLoS Pathogens is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published monthly by the Public Library of Science (PLoS). Subjects include bacteria, fungi, parasites, prions and viruses cause a plethora of diseases that have important medical, agricultural, and economic consequences. POPLINE (POPulation Information onLINE) provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. Project Euclid. Cornell University Library is proud to launch Project Euclid, an initiative to advance effective and affordable scholarly communication in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. PubChem is a freely accessible database created by NIH in 2004 to provide information about small organic molecules. It is designed for use as a research tool and as a starting point that may lead to the development of new medications. The database connects chemical information with biomedical research and clinical information, organizing facts in numerous databases into a unified whole. PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature. PMC currently provides free and unrestricted access to the full text of 104 life sciences journals, with more to come.

SCIRUS. A specialist search engine for scientific, technical and medial information sources. It offers two types of services: Web sources provide information for which no subscription or online registration is required. Scirus searches the entire Web and excludes sites with no scientific content. Scirus currently covers over 200 million science-related Web pages. Social Science Online Periodicals file on Internet provides access to the full text articles from over 200 scientific periodicals in the social sciences. It is permanently being updated and includes: a subject table, a title index and a section overview. Social Science Research Network (SSRN) consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 30,900 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 15,000 downloadable full text documents. SourceOECD is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The University Library is not a subscriber but access to the search engine and some parts of the website is free. Treasures of the Internet provides links to primary databases, photo galleries, as well as stable archives and directories available in the internet. It has search feature and an index for quick access to various databases.

OPEN ACCESS ELECTRONIC BOOKS Digital Book Index provides links to more than 105,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 66,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost. Google Print gives access to full text of books. MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Subjects include arts, business, education, mathematics, statistics, social science, science and technology. Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web. Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Questia is the first online library that provides access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. Includes 2,500 books and 9,000 articles.

Refdesk.com - "The single best source for facts on the Net." Since 1995, Refdesk is a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources.

lii.org – Librarian’s Index to the Internet. provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources

LibrarySpot.com - a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.

Other useful sites UNESCO: Free & Open Source Software Portal http:// portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php -URL_ID=12034&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Open Source Windows (list of open source software for Windows) http://www.opensourcewindows.org/ Guest, Ken. (2005, September 05) Alternatives to Windows Software. http://www.linux.ie/newusers/alternatives.php Lund University Libraries : Directory of open access journals http:// www.doaj.org/ Public Library of Science: PLoS Biology -a peer-reviewed, open-access journal. http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html

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