Wherewithal: Internet Knowledge Portal on your site while they are searchingeven for general web searching. additionalrevenue from other vertical portals leveraging your topicspecific knowledge. http://www.wherewithal.com/pb/cd.html
Extractions: Internet Knowledge Portal introduces a fast, easy way to make your Vertical Portal a complete resource for your users. Based on Wherewithal's unique collaborative taxonomy concept, vertical portals and topic-specific web sites can now offer their users an Internet search engine that is targeted at their specific needs without the expensive staff required to maintain a topic-specific web directory and taxonomy. FEATURES A customized web directory and search engine solution for vertical portals and topic-specific web sites. Includes advanced tools to build and maintain customized categories and subcategories. These tools include category editing, search engine keywords, submission management (SpamWithOut™), and per-category targeted advertising. Includes tools for creating a customized home page, category pages, and search results pages. Wherewithal's unique Hierarchical Search Algorithm allows seamless knowledge integration of custom-built categories and those created by Wherewithal Category Owners.
Fogler Library Portal: Subject Searching For Electronic Journals searching journals by subject can mean two very different things the Civil War, see1. How to identify individual journal articles about a specific topic below http://www.library.umaine.edu/ejournals/subject.htm
Extractions: Searching journals by subject can mean two very different things. If you have a question about finding articles, such as "How do I find mechanical engineering articles about bridge construction?" or "I need articles about Maine and the Civil War," see 1. How to identify individual journal articles about a specific topic below. If, instead, you have a question like "What electronic journals does the library have in engineering?", "What journals does the library have about education (regardless of format)?", or "I want to subscribe to a magazine about American history, but I don't know what's available," see How to identify journals that cover a general subject area below. 1. How to identify individual journal articles about a specific topic In order to identify individual journal articles about a specific topic, you need to use an index. Indexes may be in print or database (online or CD-ROM) format. While Fogler Library subscribes to many online, electronic-format indexes, some research areas will require the use of print indexes. Once you have selected an index, you may look up your topic alphabetically (in print) or by typing in a few keywords (in a database). Most academic fields have specialized, scholarly, discipline-specific indexes and databases. Academic Search Premier is a general-purpose, interdisciplinary database that indexes selected journals and magazines, and even provides many full-text articles; it's often a good starting point if you're unsure about which database to use.
Internet Research: Other Search Tools And Resources When using these types of topicspecific resources, select your site carefully.Before you start searching the site, read any posted material about who http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/search/other.htm
Extractions: Main Indexes OWL Home Page Writing Lab and OWL Info Handouts and Materials Workshops and Presentations Internet Resources owl home writing lab and owl handouts workshops and presentations ... Online Resources In addition to metasearch engines, search engines, and indexes, the Internet contains a wealth of topic specific search tools and resources, such as those listed in OWL's Starting Points for Internet Research and Online Resources Directory pages. When using these types of topic-specific resources, select your site carefully. Before you start searching the site, read any posted material about who develops the site and what topics it includes. Spending a few minutes to find this information will allow you to verify that the site will help you in your research and that the site is credible. Many topic-specific web sites use indexes to guide readers to specific subtopics. Therefore you may want to review the Using Catalogues/Indexes page. Some web sites also include a search tool that searches only the pages on the site. Before using these search tools, you may want to review Owl's
Searching On The Morris Library Web Site are looking for articles about a more specific topic, you need to an article indexthat you think might include your topic. searching Index Titles and Subjects. http://www.lib.siu.edu/hp/about/search_help
Extractions: [Text Only] The Morris Library Web Site is designed to help you find resources to use. It is sometimes confusing where our web pages end and where a "resource" begins. As you go through our pages, many of the links will open up databases containing information about books, articles, and more. If the blue navigational bar that says "Morris Library" disappears, you have left our web pages and entered a database or perhaps another web site on the world wide web. If you have entered a database, it should have its own help screens to guide you - if it doesn't or you want help from us, please stop by a reference desk on floors 1-5, call us at 453-2818, or send us email Here are some hints about the different search tools on our web site: The Subjects listed on our web pages are intended to match up to departments on campus. If you are looking for articles about a more specific topic, you need to choose an article index that you think might include your topic. If you don't know which index to choose, start with EBSCO , which cover many subjects.
Search The Web Classification. Galaxy Combines topicspecific vertical searching withweb directory listings from the Open Directory Project. Librarians http://www.uta.edu/library/internet/search.html
Extractions: More Information about the Library Wireless Network - Select -> Books at UTA Libraries Books - Electronic Books - New in PULSe Course Library Guides Databases - All Databases - Subject Databases - New Databases - Trial Directions to Campus Disabilities Services Distance Ed Services Doc Delivery Request Electronic Journals Find Articles Find Books Friends of the Libraries Help High School Programs Hold Request Hours Information Services Instruction Interlibrary Loan Forms Internet Resources Journals - Electronic Journals - Print (PULSe) Librarians by Subject Library Directory Library Publications Library Tours Newspapers- Electronic Online Catalog (PULSe) Other Library Catalogs Passwords Priority/Rush Request PULSe (Online Catalog) Quick Reference Remote Access Remote Storage Req. Renew Materials Research Guides Research Help Reserves - Faculty Form Search the Web Special Collections Subject Librarians UTA/Fort Worth Library Internet Resources: Search the Web Search Engines Web Directories Metasearch Specialty Search ... About Web Searching Search engines use automated tools to compile searchable indexes of web sites.
Searching For Information On The Web: Starting Points To search for a specific topic use a search engine. help page (http//lisweb.curtin.edu.au/about/gwpersonal/compare.html)to assist you in searching effectively http://lisweb.curtin.edu.au/resources/searchwww.html
Extractions: Find an electronic list to join You can search the Web for information on practically any subject. Remember that you will need to judge for yourself the quality of the information you retrieve. Material of questionable quality is readily available on the Web! Our Subject Guides offer links to Internet resources too! These are robot driven. This means that a robot collects Web sites, not a person. Remember that each of these search engines will retrieve different results so don't limit yourself to just one! Make sure you use the "Help screens" available or use this Comparison of Search Engine User Interface Capabilities help page (http://lisweb.curtin.edu.au/about/gwpersonal/compare.html) to assist you in searching effectively.
IPL Teenspace: A+ Research & Writing out what specific subject headings pertain to your topic (there may be several),so you can search the library catalog effectively (see searching the catalog http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/teen/aplus/specific.htm
Extractions: On the internet In the library Arrange a consultation with a reference librarian. Once you have done your general reading in a subject area and have chosen a topic for your paper, you need to do some in-depth reading to look for a focus. You need to become informed about the topic. A reference librarian, especially a subject specialist, can point you toward good reading materials, some of which may be reference materials and others of which can be checked out. The search strategy you follow at this stage can then be used for gathering information once you've formed a focus for your research. Find out what specific subject headings pertain to your topic (there may be several), so you can search the library catalog effectively (see
Alumni Medical Library: MEDLINE Search Tip upon the amount of literature on your topic, you may discover that there is not muchliterature specific to Ghana Try searching for the selfconcept of any age http://med-libwww.bu.edu/library/searchtip7.html
Extractions: This search strategy graph provides a visual illustration of the information retrieval process: The basic steps in the search process are outlined below: Define your topic. Before you can begin your search, you must clearly define a researchable topic. This means that you must have specific questions or problems that need to be addressed. Inappropriate or unsearchable topic "I want to know about AIDS in Africa." As you can see, this topic is too broad. There's no way you can approach this topic in MEDLINE or other databases because you haven't defined a clear, researchable question. Ask yourself what it is that you really want to focus on. Be specific, and write the topic in narrative form. Appropriate, focused, and searchable topic: "I want to find information related to the incidence and prevalence of HIV and AIDS in teenage girls in rural and urban Ghana, or in other African nations." This topic is more appropriate because it specific enough to use to create a searchable question. Notice that this topic identifies a specific aspect of AIDS/HIV (incidence and prevalence), a specific population (teenage girls), and a specific region (Ghana). This topic also takes into consideration that the literature from Ghana may be slim, so you acknowledge that you may have to branch out to other nations. Now that you've focused your idea more clearly, you can move to the next step in the search process.
American Memory Collections Search Tips: Textual Collections specific topic If the words you use do not retrieve useful documents in BibliographicRecord searching, try searching the full text, particularly for more http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/searchtp/amtext.html
Extractions: Many textual collections offer a choice of searching either the "Bibliographic Records" (the descriptive information about the texts) of the "Full Text" of the text documents. Understanding a little about the differences between the two, can help you target the materials you want. In most cases, you will be able to search either the bibliographic records or the full text but not both at the same time. (See What American Memory resources are included in this search? for individual collection details.) What is a Bibliographic Record? The phrase "Bibliographic Record" is used loosely, within the American Memory site, to mean "descriptive information" about an item or group of items. Our bibliographic records are comparable to traditional library catalog records. Although our bibliographic records are diverse, the use of words and logical structure is more consistent than the text documents themselves. Most online bibliographic records will include a title, author(s) or other creator(s), and subject terms assigned by a cataloger or subject expert. Collections may include descriptive notes, information about the format and publication of the original item, and other descriptive "metadata." The bibliographic records reflect the original collection cataloging, which was influenced by the quality of descriptive information acquired along with the collection, the nature of the collection items, and changing cataloging practices. Choose a Bibliographic Record Search to find the following:
Extractions: Browsing v. Keyword Searching A "Browse" puts you in an alphabetical or numeric list of titles, authors, subjects, call numbers, etc., at the point you specify. "Keyword" searches will scan individual catalog records for matching words or numbers. "Expanded Search" is a form of "Keyword" searching that allows users to limit queries by Language, Format, Location, and Year, etc. "Command Search" allows users to type commands, instead of using drop-down menus, for Browsing or Keyword searching. When to use Browse You know the exact title or the beginning of the title You know at least the author's last name and first initial You know an exact subject heading and want to find works on that topic You know the call number of a work and want to find other works on that topic You know the ISBN number of a book or the ISSN number of a journal Advantages of using the "Sorted Index" feature in a Browse List
Net.TUTOR: Searching 101 Best Use Use keyword searching when your research topic is specific (such as substance abuse during pregnancy ) or not much has been written on it. http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les4/pg2.html
Extractions: net.TUTOR Searching 101 Glossary Links ... Help The two most common methods of searching in online sources are by: SUBJECT How: Using standard terms or "subject headings" that have been identified by an editor to represent the main focus of a document. Where: Library catalogs and most reference databases can be searched by subject. Indexes of Web sites (like Google or AltaVista ), however, do not have this feature. KEYWORD How: Using words that may occur somewhere in a document, such as the title, description (abstract) or full-text of the resource itself. Where: This method is used when searching Web Indexes. Library catalogs and reference databases also allow keyword searching. - - - CHARACTERISTICS Efficiency: Subject searching is a precise (and thus efficient) method for finding information. It will help you find relevant information regardless of the varying terminology that different authors may use to describe a topic. Best Use: Because you can search with precision (and not retrieve unrelated information), use this method when your research topic is
Report Of The W3C Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop topicspecific indexes, repository access protocols like Z39.50, and other mesh-likemodels appearing on the Web. We also asked whether distributed searching http://www.w3.org/Search/9605-Indexing-Workshop/Motivation.html
Extractions: This workshop brought together a cross section of people involved with information server technologies, search technologies, and directory and online services, to discuss where repository interface standards could support better approaches to distributed indexing and searching. The goal of the workshop to produce standards, but rather to uncover and discuss areas of mutual concern where standards might gain momentum. There was a great deal of interest in this workshop. To keep the group of a workable size while maximizing breadth of attendee backgrounds, the workshop co-chairs limited attendance to one person per position paper, and furthermore we limited attendance to one person per institution. (One extra attendee from each of @Home Network and Transarc attended, as "scribes" for the plenary sessions of the workshop.)b There were quite a few cases where people expressed legitimate desires to bring multiple representatives (e.g., from two different parts of a large company or government agency, or from two different research labs at a university), but we felt it was necessary to limit attendance to limit the workshop to a reasonable size. The workshop spanned two days. The first day's goal was to identify areas for potential standardization through several directed discussion sessions, while the second day's goal was to filter the list of issues and identify those most likely to lead to useful standards. Each technical session during the first day began with two 15 minute talks expressing opposing views on the session topic, followed by a breakout session in three parallel tracks, during which participants were asked to examine what might be standardized over 3 month, 12 month, and longer time periods, and then to report back with a summary slide at the plenary session. At first we tried to have a brief question and answer session after each talk and a plenary discussion after the breakout session, but after the first technical session we decided to cut out questions and plenary discussions to maximize time available for the breakout sessions.
LEARN THE NET: Advanced Web Searching Techniques research on a specific topic. It enables them to limit the results to pages createdsince their last search. It is also useful when searching for current event http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/77advanc.htm
Extractions: Understanding how to perform sophisticated searches of online information will greatly increase your chances of finding what you want. While most search engines let you define your search criteria in very specific ways, not all function identically. If a search keyword is capitalized, the search engine will return only documents containing the capitalized word. For example, if you were interested in documents relating to the country of China, capitalizing the word and using an engine that supports capital sensitivity narrows down the number of results returned, eliminating documents that relate to china dishes or cookery. Note however, that in many instances it is better to leave keywords uncapitalized to allow the engine to return results that contain keywords in either form. When using search terms containing more than one word in a specific order, by enclosing the words in quotation marks, the engine returns only documents containing the exact phrase. Here's an example: When searching for information on gun control legislation, using "gun control" will eliminate those documents that contain the words
Lincoln Institute Of Land Policy: Help With Searching Search or Browse by topic We have organized our education, research and publicationsso you can find what you are looking for within specific topic areas. http://www.lincolninst.edu/tools/search_help.asp
Extractions: Please Select One Economic Analysis of the Property Tax Legal Issues in Taxation of Land and Buildings Policy Issues in the Property Tax Property Tax Administration Property Tax Base Value Capture Valuation of Land and Buildings Infrastructure Land Conservation Land Monitoring Land and Property Rights Land Use Dispute Resolution Land and Real Estate Markets Spatial Segregation The University and the City Urban and Regional Planning Urban Upgrading and Regularization Vacant Land and Reuse of Urban Land Latin America and The Caribbean Other International To search just type in a few descriptive words and hit the 'enter' key (or click on the Submit Search or Go button) for a list of relevant items. Since the search only returns items that contain all the words in your query, refining or narrowing your search is as simple as adding to or removing from the words you have already entered. To restrict a search further, just include more terms.
Effective Web Searching Advantages comprehensive large number of sites searched at once;useful when searching for a specific topic. Disadvantage must http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/kcollins/web.html
Extractions: Additional Information Not all topics are equally represented on the web. Chances are good that you will find what you want by searching the web when your topic is related to: You will be less likely to find what you want on the web when your topic: Keep in mind that if you search only the web, you are limiting yourself to articles that the publishers make available for free. Perhaps this is because the publisher is a non-profit organization, or because your tax dollars paid for it. On the other hand, perhaps it is because they want to sell you something else and can lure you in with articles, or so they can sell your wandering eyes to advertisers, or because no one would pay for the information. So if you don't want to severly compromise your research from the outset, use library databases in addition to the web.
PortalJuice.com - Vertical And Niche Search Products {*} topicspecific Suggested Related Searches All suggestions are topic-related,and common related searches other Internet users are searching for http://www.portaljuice.com/vertical/
Extractions: Blend Your Own - Ideal for Web sites and portals that require a topic-specific search engine, focused towards a niche audience. The The next generation search and navigation technology of the solves the problem of irrelevant, off-topic search results found in mainstream search engines today. Since all Custom Cluster™ search indexes are topic-specific, all search queries performed by users bring back topically relevant results. For example, a search for the term "iron" would return links to golf-related Web sites on a Golf Custom Cluster, mining-related Web sites on a Mining Industry Custom Cluster and health and vitamins on a Health Custom Cluster. Even search queries performed by the user that are seemingly off-topic bring back topic relevant search results. For example a search for the word "flowers" on a Health Custom Cluster would result in documents relating to flowers in medicine or the use of flowers in pharmaceuticals.
Turbo10 Metasearch Engine Adds Databases From The Hidden Web sites enabling searchers to perform specific legal based you home in quickly ona relevant topic. news on search engines and Internet searching, visit Pandia http://www.pandia.com/sw-2002/06-turbo10.html
Extractions: Turbo10 crawls the hidden Web PANDIA PANDIA SEARCH ENGINE NEWS (Feb 14 2002) The London-based Turbo10 metasearch engine has now added parts of the "hidden Web" to its search results. The hidden Web are parts of the World Wide Web that are normally not found by regular search engines, as the search engines cannot or will not index pages generated by automatic databases. A regular search engine will for instance not fill in a search form to get access to data on a Web site, it only follows regular Web links. As Nigel Hamilton, Turbo10's Co-founder and Managing Director, says: "Traditional search engines are just scratching the surface of the vast information reservoir because the majority use crawlers to index the Web. But a plethora of information lies in searchable databases that just can't be accessed by crawlers." Among the sources accessed by Turbo10 are business associations, universities, libraries, and government departments. Turbo10's users can for example search on specific legal databases such as AustLII - the Australasian Legal Information Institute.
General Tips For Searching The WWW And ASH The more specific your search topic is, the easier your search will be. So insteadof searching for just plants, try searching for something more specific http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/search/genhelpa.html
Extractions: Learning how to access information on the World Wide Web can be overwhelming if you have never searched the Web before. Search Engines are Internet tools which will search for Internet sites containing the keyword(s) that you select for your search. After doing a search, you will receive results in the form of links to sites which include the term(s) you are looking for. NOTE: Search engines DO NOT search the entire Internet. They search databases, or catalogs of information, developed by the organization hosting the search engine. Many factors influence the results of a search, including the size of the database, and how often the database is updated. Consequently, different search engines will provide you with different results, even when you use the same keyword(s).
Internet Search Engines engines for searching for news, auctions, downloads, encyclopedias, forums, imagesand MP3 files. Advanced search mode includes over 1,000 topicspecific meta http://www.unl.edu/libr/inet/srcheng.html
Extractions: The oldest crawler-based search engine, it is not as comprehensive or focused as Google or AllTheWeb. Indexes PDF documents as well as web pages. No cached pages, but it does have some powerful search features, some of which are unique. It's Babelfish feature provides automatic translations among a variety of languages, but only works with non-Roman alphabet languages if the appropriate font is installed. See Altavista Search options DOGPILE Meta-search engine that gathers results from Open Directory, Google, AlltheWeb, AltaVista, MSN, Wisenut, and Teoma. There are separate metasearch engines for searching for news, auctions, downloads, encyclopedias, forums, images and MP3 files. Advanced search mode includes over 1,000 topic-specific meta search engines. To help the user expand or refine a search, ez2www includes links to relevant Open Directory categories and to clustered results.
