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

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