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Year 12 presentation: Tips for better researching
This document provides information about conducting research, including resources for searching beyond basic search engines like Google. It discusses the invisible or deep web that contains vast amounts of content not indexed by typical search engines, including academic databases, e-journals, and e-books. It recommends metasearch engines and databases that can access scholarly resources from the deep web, including JSTOR, Project Muse, AustLit, and subject-specific search engines for science and academic research.
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- 1. RESEARCH “True scholarship consistsin knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.” ~ James Russell Lowell
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- 3. Join • State Libraryof NSW • National Library of Australia
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- 6. • Google.com indexes40 billion public web pages. • 100+ billion static web pages are publicly-available. These pages can easily be found by Google and other search engines • 11+ billion static pages are hidden from the public. As private intranet content, these are the corporate pages that are only open to employees of specific companies. • 450+ billion database-driven pages are completely invisible to Google.
- 7. Beyond Google • GoogleScholar • Metasearch engines: o Yippy – n.b. Shakespeare o Dogpile • Invisible (or Deep) Web: o Databases: • Jstor • Expanded Academic • Project Muse • The Literary Encyclopedia • Austlit n.b. Indigenous Literature o E-books: • Cambridge companions: • Invisible web search engines
- 8. • search forscholarly literature. • articles, theses, books, abstracts • from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
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- 11. Why Dogpile? • Metasearch:Google, Yahoo, Yandex, etc • Looks for relevance • Records previous searches
- 13. Why Yippy? • • • • • Metasearch: Searchesseveral top search engines Combines results based on comparative ranking Best results go to the top ‘Clouds’, group similar results Yippy does not track or sell your personal information
- 15. Domain names .ac =academic .au = Australia .com = commercial .edu = educational institution .edu.au .gov = government .org = organisation eg Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia .uk = UK
- 17. What is theinvisible web? • Search engines index less than 10% • The rest is called the Invisible Web or the Deep Web • Massive content hidden from search engines
- 18. Invisible (Deep) Web •Library databases: o o o o Austlit JSTOR Expanded Academic ASAP Project Muse • E-books: o Cambridge Companions Online • Invisible Web search engines: o Complete Planet o ScienceResearch.com
- 21. • • • • Scholarly journals, newsmagazines & newspapers All academic disciplines 25,152,618 articles as at 24/10/13 All published between 1980 - 2013
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- 29. “One Search. SuperiorScience.” • High quality results from the Deep Web • Slower than Google because • It searches several search engines, + collates and ranks results • For science and technology
- 35. Turn It In– for every assignment
- 37. Access Videos, anytime,anywhere
- 42. The code tothe Year 12 Room
Editor's Notes
- #3 According to Eric Schmidt of Google, every two days now the human race creates as much information as we did from the dawn of civilisation until 2003. That's about five exobytes of data a day, for those of you keeping score. The challenge becomes, not finding that scarce plant growing in the desert, but finding a specific plant growing in a jungle. We are going to need help navigating that information to find the thing we actually need.