ONLINE SEARCHING: A GUIDE TO FINDING QUALITY INFORMATION EFFICIENTLY AND EFFECTIVELY

ONLINE SEARCHING: A GUIDE TO FINDING QUALITY INFORMATION EFFICIENTLY AND EFFECTIVELY

Editorial:
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Año de edición:
Materia
Lectura
ISBN:
978-1-4422-3885-5
Páginas:
324
N. de edición:
1
Idioma:
Inglés
Disponibilidad:
Disponible en 2 semanas

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-5%

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53,00 €

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Chapter 1. Online Searching in the Age of the Information Explosion
Chapter 2. Accessing Scholarly, Professional, and Educational Information
Chapter 3. The Reference Interview for In-Depth Queries
Chapter 4. Selecting a Relevant Database
Chapter 5. Pre-Search Preparation
Chapter 6. Controlled Vocabulary for Precision in Subject Searches
Chapter 7. Free Text Searching for Recall in Subject Searches
Chapter 8. Known-Item Searching
Chapter 9. Databases for Assessing Research Impact
Chapter 10. Search Strategies
Chapter 11. Displaying and Assessing Retrievals and Responding Tactically to the Search
Chapter 12. Performing a Technical Reading of a Database and Its Search System
Chapter 13. Interacting with Library Users
Chapter 14. Online Searching Now and in the Future

• Features videos that use simple language, pictures, and animation to explain difficult and complex online searching topics such as facet analysis, logical combination, controlled vocabulary, free text searching
• Each chapter features questions and answers specific to the online searching concepts and practices described there that build incrementally so that searchers experience every step of the online searching process
• Gives a brief history that looks backward at the factors that have given rise to online searching to harness the information explosion and forward to advances in new technology that have steered online searching onto its present course
• Breaks online searching into a seven-step process and builds it back up, chapter by chapter, one step at a time
• Illustrates searching online in over 75 figures that feature a wide range of licensed and open Web databases and search systems, both common, e.g., ProQuest’s ERIC and EBSCOhost’s PsycINFO, and specialized, e.g., SimplyMap from Geographic Research and Oxford Islamic Studies Online from Oxford University Press
• Shows and tells how classifying databases based on subject, form, and genre help the aspiring expert searcher choose a relevant database for the user’s query
• Introduces search strategies and tactics that expert searchers use to achieve specific search objectives and make on-the-spot adjustments to an on-going search when things don’t go as planned
• Presents a ten-question technical reading of a database to enable the aspiring expert searcher to quickly and efficiently familiarize themselves with a new database and its search system
• Recommends what librarians should teach end users about online searching based on the type of reference interview they conduct, i.e., face-to-face, phone, chat, texting, or email
• Presents side-by-side comparisons of various system’s searching languages, suggesting searchers use them as cheat-sheets, keeping them handy for ready reference and swapping in and out the specifics of their favorite system’s searching language
• Gives real-life examples of how article- and journal-level metrics can be used to evaluate author publication records and journals
• Uses over two dozen tables to summarize important and complex ideas about online searching, databases, conducting reference interviews, and teaching users about online searching
• Online Searching’s extensive glossary gives simple, brief, and easy-to-understand definition for technical terms, concepts, and principles
• A systematic approach to learning about online searching that divides searching into seven steps, gives searchers the choice between six search strategies as the blueprint for conducting the online search at hand, familiarizes them with search tactics for making on-the-spot adjustments, and presents a ten-question method for becoming acquainted with a new database and its search system
• Concludes with important online searching issues that are likely to shape online searching in the years to come and a wish list of improvements to today’s search systems and databases

Author
Karen Markey is a professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her experience with online searching began with the earliest commercial systems, DIALOG, Orbit, and BRS, the first end-user systems, CD-ROMs and online catalogs, and includes today’s open web search engines and proprietary systems for accessing databases of bibliographic records, abstracting & indexing entries, full texts, numeric data, and multimedia. Since joining the faculty at Michigan in 1987, she has taught online searching to thousands of students in her school’s library and information science (LIS) program. Her research has been supported by the Council on Library Resources, Delmas Foundation (DF), Department of Education (DoED), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), National Science Foundation (NSF), and OCLC. She is the author of five books, more than a dozen major research reports, and over one hundred journal articles and conference proceedings papers.