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Updates the premier textbook for students and librarians needing to
know the landscape of current databases and how to search them.
Librarians need to know of existing databases, and they must be
able to teach search capabilities and strategies to library users.
This practical guide introduces librarians to a broad spectrum of
fee-based and freely available databases and explains how to teach
them. The updated 6th edition of this well-regarded text covers new
databases on the market as well as updates to older databases. It
also explains underlying information structures and demonstrates
how to search most effectively. It introduces readers to several
recent changes, such as the move away from metadata-based indexing
to full text indexing by vendors covering newspaper content.
Business databases receive greater emphasis. As in the previous
edition, this book takes a real-world approach, covering topics
from basic and advanced search tools to online subject databases.
Each chapter includes a thorough discussion, a recap, concrete
examples, exercises, and points to consider, making it an ideal
text for courses in database searching as well as a trustworthy
professional resource. Helps librarians and students understand the
latest developments in library databases Looks not only at textual
databases but also numerical, image, video, and social media
resources Includes changes and trends in database functionality
since the 5th edition
This informative and practical book teaches how to get better and
faster results from Internet searches and methods for maximizing
the potential of the world's most popular search engine. Mastering
Internet research skills is a must for today's information
professionals and LIS students, as well as for educators and all
high school and college students. But without specific instruction
in how to conduct online research, people are destined to waste
time in their Internet queries or to come up emptyhanded when the
information they're seeking is, in fact, available. Harnessing the
Power of Google: What Every Researcher Should Know offers simple
strategies that streamline research and improve anyone's search
results. It will specifically benefit information professionals,
students, and academic researchers in disciplines like
international studies, political science, and statistical research.
Illustrated with helpful screen shots, this handbook will be an
often-consulted desk reference and can serve as a workshop guide or
supplementary reading in courses on online research skills. The
book starts with a review of general guidelines for searching that
covers topics like the difference between primary and secondary
sources, determining authority, citing sources, indexing, and
ranking before addressing Google's power-searching features, such
as the ability to search by top-level Internet domain or file type.
The book describes the history of information access over the past
century, culminating in today's digital information archives and
how Google now augments-not replaces-what libraries provide. The
three Google interfaces that together comprise a powerful toolkit
are covered in detail: Google Web for finding primary source
materials; Google Scholar for full text searching of scholarly,
peer-reviewed material; and Google Books for searching the full
text of a very high percentage of books. Shows users how get to the
specific information they need more quickly through the most
effective use of Google Web, Google Scholar, and Google Books
Teaches power-searching techniques that are unknown to most
Internet users Includes sidebars that demonstrate specific
applications of the "Three Googles" to academic research questions
Written by an active reference technology librarian with three
decades of experience, and who helps undergraduate and graduate
students in areas such as public policy, international studies,
statistics, and government information on a daily basis
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