The Online World resources handbook
The Online World resources handbook
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Finding a needle ... (Part II) http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/10b.html<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Online</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>resources</strong> <strong>handbook</strong><br />
Chapter 10:<br />
Finding a needle ... (Part II)<br />
Prepare by clipping<br />
When your personal<br />
database fails to deliver<br />
Locating interesting<br />
sources E\ VHDUFKLQJ WKH<br />
net<br />
Meta searching<br />
Searching a topic<br />
area<br />
Searching for non US<br />
information<br />
Non English language<br />
searches<br />
[INDEX] [Expanded Index] [Search] [NEXT] [BACK]<br />
Searching Usenet<br />
Searching Mailing lists<br />
and Web forums<br />
Searching specialized<br />
databases<br />
<strong>The</strong> "deep"web<br />
Your "last" resort<br />
Read the user manuals<br />
Monitor the offerings<br />
More sources about<br />
sources<br />
Practical hints about online searching<br />
Practical hints about<br />
online searching<br />
Dictionaries and<br />
encyclopedias<br />
<strong>The</strong> Usenet resource<br />
(FAQs)<br />
Other sources available<br />
through the Internet<br />
Getting more out of your<br />
magazine subscriptions<br />
Finding that book<br />
<strong>Online</strong> books<br />
We cannot give a simple, universal recipe valid for all online services. <strong>The</strong> best<br />
approach on one service, may be useless on others.<br />
Besides, recommendations will vary considerably depending on whether you want<br />
"focused searches" designed to find and retrieve a specific set of documents providing a<br />
specific set of information, or "satisficed searches" designed to find just some hits that<br />
are "good enough" regardless of the source.<br />
On some services, searching starts by selecting databases or type of source. This<br />
may help you get rid of some irrelevancies. On other services, this selection is assumed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next step is to enter your search words (or text strings), and a valid time frame<br />
(as in "between 1/1/90 and 1/1/91"), where such an option is available.<br />
Here are some sample search terms used on the net:<br />
SONY AND VIDEO <strong>The</strong> term SONY and the term VIDEO. Both<br />
words must be present in the document<br />
to give a match.<br />
VIDEO* search for all words starting with<br />
VIDEO. "*" is a wild card character<br />
referring to any ending of the word.<br />
VIDEO* matches words like VIDEOTEXT<br />
and VIDEOCONFERENCE.<br />
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