LIS520 Janes
readings
Walker & Janes Online Retrieval: A Dialogue of Theory and Practice, chapters 7, 8, (PDF)
1998.
Cockrell & Jayne, “How
Do I Find an Article? Insights from a
Web Usability Study”, Journal of
Academic Librarianship 28 (3), 122-132, May 2002
Quint, Barbara, “Windows Live
Academic Search: The Details”, Information Today 4/17/06
Cohen, “Finding Scholarly
Content on the Web: From Google Scholar
to RSS Feeds”, Choice August
2005, 7-17
UC
Libraries Use of Google Scholar August 2005
questions for class discussion
How would
you assess the trustworthiness or validity of the results presented in the
Cockrell & Jayne article?
Why do
you think participants were confused about so many aspects of the search
process (p128-129)?
How would
you explain participants’ search behaviors? (p129)
What are
your opinions of the recommendations the authors provide for design of library
Web pages?
What are
the key differences between Google Scholar, Windows Live Academic Search, and
the Web of Science?
Searching Options
You may
find these of use in Searching Assignment 2.
UW Libraries:
by Subject, Alpha by file name
Dialog, Lexis/Nexis
(available on local iSchool network)
EBSCO
(these
are all corporate sites; not links to search; use UW Libraries Databases page for
that)
ProQuest (formerly UMI, Bell & Howell)
Ovid
(formerly SilverPlatter, WebSPIRS)
Thomson
Scientific, formerly ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), Web of Science (citation
indexes)
Gale Group
(incl. former IAC files)
Data Structures
sample from PsycINFO (DIALOG Bluesheet)
Examples
SFX from Ex Libris
(context sensitive reference linking product)
Searching
Stuff
PubMed
(interface to Medline from National Library of Medicine)
PsycINFO
Training Center (from Amer Psych Assn)
Using Controlled
Vocabulary (ProQuest)
Free-Text
v. Controlled Vocabulary Searching (Lebanon Valley Coll,
pdf)
Stuff
to Know About
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