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xxii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4) |
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4 3/4 in |
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--For dummies |
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--For dummies.
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| Contents |
Chapter 12. Strictly Business -- Understanding Business Research -- Getting a Company Backgrounder -- Strategizing a background search -- Company directories and packaged reports -- Tapping company and industry news sources -- Broadening your company background search -- Planning a Competitive Intelligence Operation -- Using a company's Web site -- Finding alternatives to the annual report -- Getting informed analysis -- Monitoring the news -- The indirect approach -- Doing Market Research -- Surveying sources for market research reports -- Getting more for your money with secondary sources -- Prospecting for Sales -- Looking for prospects with CompaniesOnline -- The Dun's-on-the-Web alternative -- Investigating Investments -- Ask EDGAR -- Taking stock -- Digging deeper -- Getting personal -- How Do You Manage? -- Chapter 13. Read All About It: News Media and Publications Online -- Broadcast News -- Tuning in to the Big Four: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN -- Viewing some other contendahs: Fox and C-SPAN -- Getting the story worldwide -- News AND weather and sports -- Newspapers Online -- Finding your local paper online -- Searching newspapers on the Web -- Going deeper into the archives, part 1 -- I Saw It in the Dentist's Office: Magazines Online -- Locating magazines online -- Going deeper into the archives, part 2 -- Staying Current -- The Dally Brief -- In-Box Direct -- NewsPage -- NewsHound -- Northern Light Search Alert -- My Yahoo! -- Other news channels -- The 'Zine Scene: New Sources for News and Information -- Chapter 14. Life Choices -- Choosing a College -- Finding college and university directories -- Following professional pointers -- What's up, pre-doc? -- Feeling listless? -- Lessons learned -- Finding a Job -- Job boards -- Going to the source -- Buying a Car -- Browsing car and consumer magazines -- Getting serious -- Asking around -- Doing the deal -- Lessons learned, continued -- Planning a Vacation -- Cruising through newsgroups -- Shipping out -- We be jammin' -- Travel is broadening -- Lessons learned, continued some more -- Chapter 15. Recreational Research: Hobbies and Interests -- What's Cooking? -- Lights, Camera... Research -- Playing the Keyboard -- Yahooling it -- Shop 'til you bop -- Musical true confessions -- Indoor Birding -- Doing It Yourself -- The Researching Online For Dummies, 2nd Edition Internet Directory -- Part IV. The Broader Picture |
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Chapter 8. Visiting Libraries Online -- Libraries: Alive and Thriving Online -- Finding Web-based Library Catalogs -- Using WebCATS -- Thinking locally -- Looking at the Library of Congress -- Telnetting to OPACs -- Hytelnetting around -- A short side trip to Malaysia -- So It's in the Online Catalog; How Do I Get It? -- The ins and outs of ILL -- Buying instead of borrowing -- Xerox is not a verb: Requesting article photocopies -- Document delivery services -- The Delights of Digital Libraries -- SunSITE: The digital library mother lode -- The American Memory Project -- Images from the History of Medicine -- Chapter 9. Knock, Knock: Gated Information Services -- Getting Acquainted with Gated Sites -- Sampling Members-Only Web Sites -- The New York Times on the Web -- The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- Ei Village -- Consumer Goods: America Online and CompuServe -- America Online -- CompuServe -- Calling in the Pros: Going Wide and Deep with Professional Online Services -- Some prose on the pros of the pros -- Dealing with database depth -- The Other Online: Dow Jones, Dialog, Lexis-Nexis, and More -- Beating the averages with Dow Jones Interactive -- Shopping at Dialog's supermarket -- Learning the ways of Lexis-Nexis -- Getting it wholesale -- Web Search Engines Turn Pro -- Looking up Northern Light -- Browsing the Electric Library -- Power up with Powerize -- How Do You Choose? -- One Final Point -- Chapter 10. The Personal Touch -- The Human Side of the Net -- Where Do the Experts Hang Out Online? -- Newsgroups -- Browsing newsgroups with Liszt -- Finding newsgroups with RemarQ -- Reading newsgroup posts -- Taking the temperature of a newsgroup -- Before you post: The FAQs of life -- Aunt Netty-Quette's priceless pointers for painless posting -- Mailing Lists -- Locating lists with Liszt -- Tile.net and the List of Lists -- Netiquette revisited -- Dealing with info- and subscription-bots -- Virtual Villages and Conferencing Systems -- Exploring virtual communities on the Web -- Finding community online -- Taking It to E-Mail -- Caveats and Cautions (Dealing with Human Nature) -- From the horse's mouth? -- The (low) signal to noise ratio -- Flame wars -- Overload -- Part III. Putting It All Together -- Chapter 11. Strange New Worlds: Government, Medical, and Sci-Tech Research -- We're from the Government, and We're Here to Help You -- Mastering the info-maze with FedWorld -- Life beyond FedWorld -- In Sickness and in Health -- Tapping the medical literature with Medline -- Exploring other medical information sources -- Seeking support for medical problems online -- Mere Technicalities -- Knowing where to start -- What about patents? -- Satisfying your scientific curiosity |
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Introduction -- What Librarians Know -- Searching versus Surfing -- What Makes a Good Researcher? -- What We Know About You -- How This Book Is Organized -- Conventions and Icons Used in This Book -- What's New in the Second Edition -- One More Thing -- Part I. Getting Started -- Chapter 1. The Many Faces of Online -- The Online World: Library, Bookstore, or Shopping Mall after an Earthquake? -- The Net beneath the Web -- Gopher it! -- Telnetting around -- Gated, Not Open; Fee, Not Free -- Probing professional online services -- Members-only Web sites -- The Human Side of the Net -- Chapter 2. Thinking and Working Like a Researcher -- Reference-Interviewing Yourself -- Where Do You Start? -- Mental-mapping your online resources -- Reality-checking -- When Bad Things Happen to Good Searchers -- Yikes, 42,178 hits! What do I do now? -- Waah! How come I didn't get anything? -- Why on earth did I get This? -- Evaluating what you get -- Boolean (And Other) Basics -- Boolean searching -- Proximity operators -- Field searching -- Pluralization, truncation, and wild cards -- Case-sensitivity -- Knowing When You're Done -- Using What You Find -- Part II. The Tools of the Trade -- Chapter 3. The Search Engine Sweepstakes -- Timeless Tips for Effective Searching -- What to Consider When Choosing a Search Engine -- Exploring General Search Engines -- AltaVista -- Excite -- GO Network -- HotBot -- Northern Light -- Making Your Mark with Meta-Engines -- Inference Find -- SavvySearch -- The BigHub.com -- Ask Jeeves -- Invisible Web -- Dogpile -- The Offline Meta Alternatives -- Copernic -- BullsEye -- Sherlock -- Watching the Web with Search Engine Watch and Showdown -- Chapter 4. Using Specialty Search Engines -- The All-in-One Search Page -- Search.com -- Beaucoup Search Engines -- Searching Newsgroups with RemarQ -- Pinpointing People -- Yahoo!-ing friends and family -- Plugging into Switchboard -- Some Tips for People-Finding -- The problem with e-mail listings -- They're not listed -- now what? -- Locating Businesses -- Finding firms with BigBook -- Getting info from infoUSA -- Going global with WorldPages -- Questing for Maps with MapQuest -- Shopping for Software with Shareware.com and Download.com -- Finding freebies at Shareware.com -- Browsing at Download.com -- Chapter 5. Subject Catalogs: The Narrow-Down Approach -- Narrowing Your Search: The Drill-Down Drill -- Subject Catalogs versus Search Engines -- Hybrid Subject Catalogs -- Getting a hole-in-one with Yahoo! -- AltaVista's views of the Web -- Excite-ing possibilities -- GO seek and ye shall find -- Pure Subject Catalogs -- World Wide Web Virtual Library -- Argus Clearinghouse -- About.com -- Chapter 6. Playing the Links: Guru Pages and Mega-Sites -- Tapping Into the Contributions of Others -- Guru Pages: Experts, Enthusiasts, and Obsessives -- Mega-Sites: Stepping through the Gateway -- The librarian's guide to everything -- The joys of jurisprudence -- Chapter 7. Ready Reference: Finding Facts Fast -- Reference: Research Light -- Virtual Reference Collections -- Internet Public Library -- The Virtual Reference Desk -- Research-It! -- The Yahoo! Reference Collection -- Becoming a Reference Ace -- Hitting (A Few of) the Books -- The World Factbook -- Encyclopedia Britannica -- Roget's Thesaurus -- Random Reference Goodies -- How Things Work -- New area code lookup -- This day in history |
| Summary |
Explains how to select a search engine, request information from online libraries and archives, explore governmental cyber-bureaucracy, verify information, deal with copyright issues, and cite online references properly |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Audience |
RWUE |
| Notes |
System requirements for accompanying computer disc: PC with 486 or faster processor; or Macintosh with 68030 or faster processor; Microsoft Windows 95 or later; or Mac System 7.5 or later |
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Computer network resources.
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Database searching.
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Electronic information resource searching.
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Interactive computer systems.
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Internet research.
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Internet.
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Internet searching.
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Internet.
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Online Systems.
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Research Personnel -- education.
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| Author |
Bates, Mary Ellen.
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| LC no. |
99069375 |
| ISBN |
0764503820 |
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0764505467 paperback |
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9780764503825 |
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9780764505461 paperback |
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