The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook

The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook
Author: Randolph Hock
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2007
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780910965767

A guide to effectively searching the Internet covers such topics as search engines, directories, newsgroups, image resources, and reference resources.

The Advanced Internet Searcher's Handbook

The Advanced Internet Searcher's Handbook
Author: Phil Bradley
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

The handbook offers help with topics such as free-text search engines, index-based search engines, searching the 'hidden web', finding images, sounds and multimedia information, finding people, and weblogs.

The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies
Author: William H. Dutton
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191641189

Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the future. The Handbook aims to focus on Internet Studies as an emerging field, each chapter seeking to provide a synthesis and critical assessment of the research in a particular area. Topics covered include social perspectives on the technology of the Internet, its role in everyday life and work, implications for communication, power, and influence, and the governance and regulation of the Internet. The Handbook is a landmark in this new interdisciplinary field, not only helping to strengthen research on the key questions, but also shape research, policy, and practice across many disciplines that are finding the Internet and its political, economic, cultural, and other societal implications increasingly central to their own key areas of inquiry.

The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods

The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods
Author: Nigel G Fielding
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 685
Release: 2016-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473959306

Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters covering more recent developments, such as social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS. Bringing together the leading names in both qualitative and quantitative online research, this new edition is organised into nine sections: 1. Online Research Methods 2. Designing Online Research 3. Online Data Capture and Data Collection 4. The Online Survey 5. Digital Quantitative Analysis 6. Digital Text Analysis 7. Virtual Ethnography 8. Online Secondary Analysis: Resources and Methods 9. The Future of Online Social Research The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition is an essential resource for anyone interested in the contemporary practice of computer-mediated research and scholarship.

The Internet Searcher's Handbook

The Internet Searcher's Handbook
Author: Peter Morville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1999
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Providing assistance to both newbies and advanced researchers in navigating the still not quite natural language-friendly Internet, expanded chapters encompass search fundamentals; web guides; online communities; and virtual libraries, directories, andsearch tools. The guide concludes with brief comments on a subject deemed beyond its scope: the quality of located material. Includes quick reference charts, and a list of featured web sites by chapter.

Expert Internet Searching

Expert Internet Searching
Author: Phil Bradley
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1856046052

The highly anticipated new edition of Phil Bradley's essential guide to internet search (formerly titled The Advanced Internet Searcher's Handbook) is here. This no-nonsense handbook will give you the tools to find the information that you need more quickly and effectively than ever before. Since the last edition was published internet search has changed dramatically, with both the amount of information to be found online and the diversity of tools to unlock it expanding exponentially. This new edition, rewritten from scratch, gives readers the information and guidance they need to choose the right search tools and strategies for each information need. From searching social media effectively to tracking down an expert or a news story, and from searching by image to searching multimedia, Bradley introduces the best search engines and tools and explains how to get the most out of them. Whether you are a casual searcher or an expert information retriever, you will find information on a wide variety of search engines that you've never tried before and lists of tools and resources that will make you an even better searcher than you already are. Key topics include: An introduction to the internet An introduction to search engines The Google experience Other free-text search engines Directory- and category-based search engines Multi- and meta-search engines Social media search engines Visual searching Finding people People-based resources Academic and other specialized search engines News-based search engines Multimedia search engines Sample searches with hints and tips on better searching Search utilities and resources to make life easier The future of search. Readership: This book will be an invaluable guide for anyone searching the internet for information, whether you are taking your first steps or are becoming more expert. Those teaching others how to search the internet efficiently will find suggestions and strategies and an eloquent rebuttal of the claim that 'it's all on Google'.

Reference and Information Services

Reference and Information Services
Author: Kay Ann Cassell
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 083891568X

Designed to complement every introductory library reference course, this is the perfect text for students and librarians looking to expand their personal reference knowledge, teaching failsafe methods for identifying important materials by matching specific types of questions to the best available sources, regardless of format. Guided by a national advisory board of educators and practitioners, this thoroughly updated text expertly keeps up with new technologies and practices while remaining grounded in the basics of reference work. Chapters on fundamental concepts, major reference sources, and special topics provide a solid foundation; the text also offers fresh insight on core issues, including ethics, readers' advisory, information literacy, and other key aspects of reference librarianship;selecting and evaluating reference materials, with strategies for keeping up to date;assessing and improving reference services;guidance on conducting reference interviews with a range of different library users, including children and young adults;a new discussion of reference as programming;important special reference topics such as Google search, 24/7 reference, and virtual reference; anddelivering reference services across multiple platforms As librarians experience a changing climate for all information services professionals, in this book Cassell and Hiremath provide the tools needed to manage the ebb and flow of changing reference services in today's libraries.

Organizing Knowledge

Organizing Knowledge
Author: Jennifer Rowley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351913271

The fourth edition of this standard student text, Organizing Knowledge, incorporates extensive revisions reflecting the increasing shift towards a networked and digital information environment, and its impact on documents, information, knowledge, users and managers. Offering a broad-based overview of the approaches and tools used in the structuring and dissemination of knowledge, it is written in an accessible style and well illustrated with figures and examples. The book has been structured into three parts and twelve chapters and has been thoroughly updated throughout. Part I discusses the nature, structuring and description of knowledge. Part II, with its five chapters, lies at the core of the book focusing as it does on access to information. Part III explores different types of knowledge organization systems and considers some of the management issues associated with such systems. Each chapter includes learning objectives, a chapter summary and a list of references for further reading. This is a key introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of information management.

LA Record

LA Record
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2002
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

Your Guide to Google Web Search

Your Guide to Google Web Search
Author: Ren Djurup
Publisher: Rebidu
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 8777930290

Written for lay people searching for information on the Web, this resource describes all Google Web Search features and tools in detail. All critical steps are illustrated with detailed screenshots.