Bookmarks: A Guide To Research and Writing (Ruskiewicz, Walker and Pemberton) Chapter 5, 6

Chapter 5

At some point in a research project a student will need to undertake a systematic search.

Priority 1— learn about your library. Elizabeth Nelson will provide you with specific information about retrieving materials from the main library in San Diego. Most materials are available in 48 hours.

• Library catalog—by title, by subject, by Library of Congress classification, by keyword
  • Ask a Librarian
  • A list of online library catalogs for the possibility of locating a book through interlibrary loan
• Reference Room
  • American School Directory
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  • CIA World Fact Book
  • Encyclopedia Brittanica online
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • Perry Casteneda Map Room
  • U.S. Census Bureau American Fact Finder
  • U. S. Code
  • WWWebster's Dictionary
• Bibliographies and databases—Locating an appropriate bibliography can save a lot of time, if a good one on your subject can be found
  • National University's database page
  • A list of biographical information maintained by the A&E program Biography
  • Bartleby.com
  • On-line Books
  • The Quotation Page
• Statistics
  • New York Times on the Web technology reference page
  • General Reference Collection at the Internet Public Library
  • Old Farmer's Almanac
• GPO Access
• Microforms and collections
• Periodical collections
• Newspapers
  • Yahoo's News and and Media Guide
  • CEO Express
    • CNN Interactive
    • C-SPAN Online
    • London Times
    • National Public Radio
    • Reuter's
    • The Wall Street Journal
• Book and film reviews
  • Book Reviews
• Yahoo's directory
• Amazon.com
• Film Reviews
  • Yahoo's directory
• Special collections
• Government documents
• Government Printing Office
• Review of 2004 Supreme Court Decisions in New York Times

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Selected Search Engines

• Alta Vista
• Ask Jeeves
• Dogpile
• Google
• HotBot
• Teoma
• Vivissimo
• Web Crawler
• Wisenut
• Yahoo

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Academic Search Engines

• Argus Clearinghouse
• eserver.org
• Infomine
• Infosurf
• Internet Public Library
• Librarirain's Index to the Internet
• Library of Congress Subject Guide to Internet Sources
• The Universal Library
• Voice of the Shuttle

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Other Helpful Sites for Searching the Web

• Yahoo's Searching the Web
• I Tools
• Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools and Techniques

Chapter 6

A guide to Boolean operators

• AND (This term includes an intersections of both terms. This will combine items that occur on either side of the AND. A very general search)
• OR (This term will search on both words 1 and 2—providing that they are similar types of words—and provide hits for all items that contain the words on either side of the OR)
• NOT (This term will exclude any hits that relate to the item following the NOT)
• " " (the "exact phrase" search or "term" search allows for a specific term to be located. All words within the quotes will be searched for as as a string within texts)
• work* (This term will include all forms of the word used. For example, work* will include "work," "works,"working," "worker," and "workers")
• ( ) (This item will allow one to segment the search so that one part is done separately from another part)

A guide to Boolean operators

Search Engine Comparisons

• Search Engine Showdown
• Search Engine Watch
  • Engine Watch's list of search engines

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