Searching Tools

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From: Manuela Fortenberry [mailto:mfortenberry@cato.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 12:32 PM
To: SLA Solo Division
Subject: [sla-dsol] Searching tools


First, I’d like to thank everyone that responded to my question last week. The reaction was overwhelming to say the least. And the material was superb! I can easily create a training presentation for our researchers from the material that was submitted. Thank you so much!

As promised, here are the results from my request. I categorized them so they would be easier to review, sort and save for anyone else.

Boolean Search tutorials

http://www.internettutorials.net/boolean.html
http://www.googleguide.com/
http://newterra.chemeketa.edu/library/instruction/tutorials/boolean/boolean.htm
http://lib.colostate.edu/tutorials/boolean_info.html
http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/index.html
http://www.ozline.net/tutor/tutor1.html
http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_tools.html
http://infopeople.org/search/chart.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m2017.html

Research Strategies

http://www.ycp.edu/library/ifl/etext/etsearch.htm
http://my.simmons.edu/library/collections/gslis/instruction.shtml
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html#Outline
http://www.library.cornell.edu/t/help/res_strategy/tutorial/tutorial.html
http://www.acts.twu.ca/LBR/chapter1.htm
http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google
http://www.llrx.com/features/verifying.htm
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Handouts.html
http://www.llrx.com/features/efficientsearch.htm
http://library.albany.edu/usered/tutdex/index.html

A site with everything about searching;

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=facts

Recommended Books

Greg Notess's Teaching Web Search Skills
Decision Points: Boolean Logic for Computers Users and And Online Searchers
Searching & Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web
The Skeptical Business Searcher

Manuela Fortenberry
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