Tutorial: Information Search Tools

Internet Functions Usenet File Transfer Protocol Telnet Listservs World Wide Web Chat Videoconferencing

Information Retrieval Search Engines –How they Work Spiders Indexing Retrieval Engine HTML Interface –Examples (Natural Language Interface) Meta Search Engines – –

Information Retrieval (ctd.) Newsgroups – (deja.com) Online Databases –Bison: –ABI/Proquest: (start at: ) –Technical support sites (eg. ) Other –Discussion Forums ( ) –Regular ole Web Surfing

Off-Campus Logon For info on how to log in from home: For U/M site-licensed software: ACN at for computer support.

Internet Explorer News Groups Directions assume IE 5.5 and Outlook Express –Tools, Mail & News, Read News –Select a newsgroup & click on subscribe button –Click on Okay –Double click on the group you added to download messages (you may want to download only 100 messages) –You can pick the message you want to read from the headers at the top –You can reply to the group by clicking “Reply Group” –To save a message, just highlight & save it to a file

Your account If you have questions concerning your account, please contact: –Shirley Hares, Accounts Administrator, , –Room 629 Engineering Bldg, Fort Garry campus, – For assistance, please contact: –ACN Support Desk, , –Room 629 Engineering Bldg, Fort Garry campus, –

Claim Your Accounts Accessing Computer Accounts –LAN: ID is student #, password is date of birth (yymmdd) If in doubt, ask Lab Supervisor If not enrolled in Asper School of Business, see Lab Assistant –UNIX: CLAIMID on Umanitoba Web site If you have problems, ask Lab Supervisor or someone at Academic Computing & Networking (629 Engineering) More details can be found at: You may use a non-University account for your and Web page if you wish

Next Class Tutorial on Web Page Creation Bring Assignment #1 with you