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The Oxford Guide to Library Research - How to Find Reliable Information Online and Offline (Paperback, 4th Revised edition)
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The Oxford Guide to Library Research - How to Find Reliable Information Online and Offline (Paperback, 4th Revised edition)
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The information world has undergone drastic changes since the
publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library
Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at
the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to
reflect those changes. This book will answer two basic questions:
First, what is the extent of the significant research resources you
will you miss if you confine your research entirely, or even
primarily, to sources available on the open Internet? Second, if
you are trying to get a reasonably good overview of the literature
on a particular topic, rather than just "something quickly" on it,
what are the several alternative methods of subject
searching--which are not available on the Web--that are usually
much more efficient for that purpose than typing keywords into a
blank search box, with the results displayed by relevance-ranking
computer algorithms?
This book shows researchers how to do comprehensive research on any
topic. It explains the variety of search mechanisms available, so
that the researcher can have the reasonable confidence that s/he
has not overlooked something important. This includes not just
lists of resources, but discussions of the ways to search within
them: how to find the best search terms, how to combine the terms,
and how to make the databases (and other sources) show relevant
material even when you don't know how to specify the best search
terms in advance. The book's overall structuring by nine methods of
searching that are applicable in any subject area, rather than by
subjects or by types of literature, is unique among guides to
research. Also unique is the range and variety of concrete examples
of what to do--and of what not to do.
The book is not "about" the Internet: it is about the best
alternatives to the Internet--the sources that are not on the open
Web to begin with, that can be found only through research
libraries and that are more than ever necessary for any kind of
substantive scholarly research. More than any other research guide
available, this book directly addresses and provides solutions to
the serious problems outlined in recent studies documenting the
profound lack of research skills possessed by today's "digital
natives."
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