John Glover - HIST/INFO 221 - Spring 2005 Web Resources for Historical Research.

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John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 Web Resources for Historical Research

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 What is the Web?

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 The Web Is: A large network of servers and relays A very big library Porn and spam “The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.” (This and all definitions in this presentation from Answers.com”)

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 For Our Purposes: Web sites Online archives of primary sources Virtual museums So much more!

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 What the Web Is NOT… Library catalogues Databases Point: You can get to things via the Web that are NOT the Web. (A fine distinction, but important.)

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 Finding Stuff Online

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 Searching Online

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 Search Engines “Software program[s] that search database[s] and gather and report information that contains or is related to specified terms.” Google, Teoma, Vivisimo, Yahoo

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 Better Searching Many more online: “hacks,” “tricks,” and “tips” Directories: dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Time_P eriod/20th_Century/Military_History/World_War_I/ dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Time_P eriod/20th_Century/Military_History/World_War_I/ (GREAT source – type in the LC subject heading for WWI and see what comes up…)

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 Evaluation of Resources If it looks like a dead fish, smells like a dead fish, and the domain name tells you it’s a dead fish…

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 Things to Note Domain name -.com vs. edu vs..tv Owner of page Quality of scholarship Language used Design/appearance

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 WWI Online Resources

John Glover - HIST/INFO Spring 2005 Questions?