Conducting
Scholarly Research via theWorld Wide Web
- Web Search Strategies. http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/main.html
- This excellent guide on strategies for searching the web
was developed by Debbie Flanagan, an Education Specialist for
a consulting firm in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She teaches several
Internet courses and also holds a Master of Science degree in
Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Central
Florida.
- Best
Search Tools. http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html
- Includes the major search engines and subject directories
on two pages-very convenient
- Internet
Scout Project. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu
- This weekly publication offers a selection of new and newly
discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and
educators. You can get on their mailing list for the area(s)
that interest you.
- Librarian Index
to the Internet. http://www.lii.org
- An annotated subject directory of more than 6,400 Internet
resources selected and evaluated by libraians. Provides a current
awareness service that alerts weekly to the top 20 resources
added.
- Web
Sites by Subjects. http://www.csupomona.edu/~library/websites/
- Hundreds of Internet sites were selected and evaluted by
your own Cal Poly Pomona librarians. You can look for sites in
three ways: use the broad discipline headings, type in keywords,
or use the A-Z site map.
- Publist.
The Internet Directory of Publishers. http://www.publist.com
- Good source for locating guidelines for submitting an article
to a particular journal. Use the 'Browse Periodical by Subject'
section to locate a specific journal title.
- Citing Internet Sources. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
- Citing electronic sources is made easier with this site.
Presenting guidelines from the Modern Language Association (MLA),
the American Psychological Association (APA), The Chicago Manual
of Style, and the Council of Biology Editors (CBE), with examples
for citing and documenting World Wide Web sites, e-mail messages,
Web discussion forum postings, listserv and newsgroup messages,
real-time communications (MOOs, MUDs, IRCs), telnet sites, FTP
sites, and gopher sites. There are related links to other style
conventions and an excellent FAQ. Information from this site
is based on Andrew Harnack's and Eugene Kleppinger's book entitled
Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources. This
book call number is TK 5105.875 I57H364 1997. It is located on
the 3rd floor of the library.
- The Invisible
Web. http://www.csupomona.edu/~ecgibson/invisible_web.html
- Vast expanses of the Web are completely invisible to general
purpose search engines like Google, HotBot, and AltaVista. Add
to that the fact that this 'Invisible Web' is probably growing
faster than the visible Web we're familiar with and the problem
is compounded. Why can't some pages be indexed? One of the reasons
is because there are no links pointing to a page that a search
engine spider (automated programs used to search the Web and
retrieve pages) can follow. Or a page may be made up of data
types that search engines don't index such as graphics, CGI scripts,
Macromedia flash or PDF files. But the biggest part of the 'Invisible
Web' is made up of information stored in databases. Search engines
spiders can't decipher or index what's included in a database.
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Cal Poly Pomona University Library
Emma C. Gibson
November 30, 2004