The Illustrated Series Vision | p. iii |
Preface | p. iv |
Read This Before You Begin | p. x |
Searching the Internet Effectively | p. 1 |
Understanding Internet Search Tools | p. 2 |
Creating an Internet Research Strategy | p. 4 |
Identifying the Right Keywords | p. 6 |
Performing a Basic Search | p. 8 |
Why do search results vary with different search engines? | |
Adding Keywords | p. 10 |
Arranging keywords | |
Phrase Searching | p. 12 |
Other ways to search using phrases | |
Analyzing Search Results | p. 14 |
Citing Online Resources | p. 16 |
Copyright and plagiarism | |
Concepts Review | p. 18 |
Skills Review | p. 19 |
Independent Challenges | p. 20 |
Visual Workshop | p. 22 |
Constructing Complex Searches | p. 23 |
Understanding Boolean Operators | p. 24 |
Keep a search diary | |
Where have you heard this before? | |
Narrowing a Search with the AND Operator | p. 26 |
Using the plus sign: + | |
Expanding a Search with the OR Operator | p. 28 |
Restricting a Search with the AND NOT Operator | p. 30 |
More on the AND NOT operator | |
Using Multiple Boolean Operators | p. 32 |
Using multiple Boolean operators in basic and advanced search forms | |
Planning a complex search | |
Searching with Filters | p. 34 |
Filtering domains in the URL | |
Combining Boolean Operators and Filters | p. 36 |
Using the search text boxes on an advanced search page | |
Using Metasearch Engines | p. 38 |
Maximizing metasearching | |
Concepts Review | p. 40 |
Skills Review | p. 42 |
Independent Challenges | p. 44 |
Visual Workshop | p. 46 |
Browsing Subject Guides | p. 47 |
Understanding Subject Guides | p. 48 |
Browsing a Subject Guide | p. 50 |
Distributed subject guides | |
Searching a Subject Guide | p. 52 |
Navigating a Subject Guide | p. 54 |
Tapping Trailblazer Pages | p. 56 |
Using a Specialized Search Engine | p. 58 |
How do you find a specialized search engine? | |
Understanding Evaluative Criteria | p. 60 |
Are there any objective Web pages? | |
Evaluating a Web Page | p. 62 |
Concepts Review | p. 64 |
Skills Review | p. 66 |
Independent Challenges | p. 67 |
Visual Workshop | p. 70 |
Finding Specialty Information | p. 71 |
Understanding Specialty Information | p. 72 |
Visible and invisible Web | |
Finding People and Places | p. 74 |
Finding places | |
Locating Businesses | p. 76 |
Searching Periodical Databases | p. 78 |
Where to find online periodicals | |
Finding Government Information | p. 80 |
Finding Online Reference Sources | p. 82 |
Online reference sources about the Internet | |
Finding Mailing Lists and Newsgroups | p. 84 |
Netiquette | |
Searching with an Intelligent Agent | p. 86 |
Concepts Review | p. 88 |
Skills Review | p. 90 |
Independent Challenges | p. 92 |
Visual Workshop | p. 94 |
Data Files List | p. 95 |
Glossary | p. 97 |
Index | p. 101 |
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