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Internet research skills : how to do your literature search and find research information online / Niall Ó Dochartaigh.
LIBRA ZA4228 .O33 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ó Dochartaigh, Niall.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet research.
- Internet searching.
- Physical Description:
- x,169 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Sage Publications, 2007.
- Summary:
- How do you conduct efficient, effective and credible research using the internet? How do you identify key works and trace the academic debates in your research area? How do you develop search strategies that flexibly combine a variety of online resources? How does one sort out reliable and critical information from the mass of unreliable material online? How can you use the internet as an aid to doing and managing your research project at university? Internet Research Skills is a clear and concise guide to the effective and critical use of the Internet for students in the social sciences and the humanities. It is aimed at students and research professionals who already use the Internet but would like to use it more effectively and efficiently in their research.
- Features include: Inset boxes, including search tips, technical explanations, examples and warning tips on avoiding common pitfalls, Exercises at the end of each chapter that cover the key skills, Worked examples throughout the book, drawing on a range of social science and humanities disciplines, Illustration with relevant screengrabs. This concise and accessible introduction to Internet research skills will be a perfect guide for undergraduate students carrying out research projects and for postgraduate students working on theses and dissertations.
- Contents:
- Why not just search Google? 1
- Who this book is aimed at 2
- Understanding the Internet 3
- Print publications online 6
- Library catalogues 11
- Online bookshops 15
- Full-text books online 16
- Book reviews 22
- Publishers 23
- 3 Articles 26
- Understanding academic articles 26
- Managing references 29
- CrossRef 30
- Annual Reviews 31
- Google Scholar 31
- Windows Live Academic 34
- Indexing and abstracting databases 34
- Specialized subject databases 43
- Full-text articles online 46
- Publishers 49
- Open access 51
- Other article databases 53
- Theses and dissertations 54
- 4 Subject guides 59
- Searching the open web 59
- Academic subject guides 62
- Universal subject guides 66
- Understanding web addresses 69
- Understanding websites 72
- 5 Searching the keyword search engines 78
- The big four 79
- Advanced searching 81
- Comparing the search engines 84
- Meta search engines 85
- Comparing search engines with meta search engines 86
- Boolean searching 87
- How search engines search 88
- Devising search queries 89
- Look before you leap 93
- Technical difficulties 94
- 6 Interaction, news and multimedia 98
- Interaction 98
- Email lists 104
- Discussion groups 107
- News 110
- Multimedia 113
- 7 Governments, archives and statistics / Niall O Dochartaigh, Patricia Sleeman 123
- Governments 124
- Archives 131
- Statistics 136
- 8 Evaluation and citation 143
- Classification 144
- Evaluation 148
- Citation 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-162) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781412911122
- 1412911125
- 9781412911139
- 1412911133
- OCLC:
- 163625175
- Online:
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