English 1213 Dr. Collins Session 4 Defining the World Wide Web & Web Resources.
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English 1213Dr. Collins
Session 4Defining the World Wide Web & Web Resources
Part 1
Defining theWorld Wide Web
Web Searching is easy because…..
Speed Choice Availability 24/7
Always get an answer
Web searching is difficult because…
Lack of Organization Lack of Quality control Lack of Reliability
Strengths: Web vs. Library Web
Current events and news Statistics and Other
Information by Gov.’t Full-text Resources
(expired copyright) Pop Culture
TV Movies Music
Opinion Information about
Organizations & Groups
Library Research Based Books
& Articles Works Cited/
Bibliographies Full-text Resources Authoritative & Peer-
reviewed Materials Information about
People & Cultures Easier to Search
Library Catalog Databases
Timeframe for Info
Books Articles Newspapers Web Pages
Once Quarterly – Weekly Daily – Multiple Ed. Hourly – Anytime
0 1000 2000 3000 4000
Internet
Databases
Periodicals
Newspapers
Books
Years Old
Why Can’t I Get this Info on the Web?
Humanities American History $29.95 / yr Journal of Teacher Education $30 / yr College English $75 / yr
Nursing & Allied Health Applied Nursing Research $224 / yr Nursing Science Quarterly $280 / yr Journal of Community Health Nursing $475 / yr
Sciences Journal of the Optical Society of America $1,760 / yr Journal of the American Chemical Society $3,589 / yr Journal of Physics $7,115 / yr
This doesn’t include pricing for electronic access or database subscriptions.
Surface Web
Ever wonder what you might be missing?
Google2.7 billion searches per monthIndexes a trillion web pages
Indexes 16% of the Surface WebIndexes 0.03% of the entire
World Wide Web
Deep Web (or Hidden Web)
NO SEARCH ENGINES ALLOWED
54% of DWis databases
DW is 500 timeslarger than SW And a 1,000 times
higher in quality too
Part 2
Web Resources
http://searchenginewatch.com Web searching tips Search engine listings Search engine ratings (which is rated better?) Tutorials News
Buying Your Way In (paid listings in search engines) Fun Stuff
Sprechen Sie Search Engines?
Directory
Electronic Yellow Pages
Organized into categories
Point & click searching
Search Engine
Simply searches Prominent search
box Google voted “Most
Outstanding Search Engine” 4 times
Lycos, the oldest search engine on the web (‘94)
Metasearch Engine
Utilize search engines and directories to compile comprehensive results
“one-stop” searching Dogpile voted “Best Meta
Search Engine” Vivísimo voted “Best
Meta Search Engine” (’02)
Mamma, the oldest metasearch engine on the web (’96)
Specialty Web Tools
Kartoo, a visual search tool
Ditto, an image search engine
Radio-Locator, a audio/radio station search engine
KidsClick!, a kids friendly search tool
Government Web Tools
USAGov, (formerly FirstGov) director of federal gov’t websites
SoonerSearch, a portal to Oklahoma gov’t websites
Unclesam, a version of Google that searches only gov’t websites
Infomine, access to university level research on gov’t info
Part 2a
DigitalCollections
Digital Collections
http://faculty.swosu.edu/jason.dupree/links.html American Memory Virginia eText Center NYPL UFDC
Part 2b
LibGuides
LibGuides
http://libguides.swosu.edu/ Research Information – websites vetted by librarians “How To” Guides Ask a Librarian embedded
End of Session 4
Thank Youfor listening