25 IMPORTANT WEB 2.0 TOOLS FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS We will cover in this Power Point: NEW SEARCH ENGINES / WEB EVALUATION RESOURCES OPEN SOURCE DATABASES GOOGLE’S ADVANCED SEARCH CAPABILITY GOOGLE CUSTOMIZATION: POWER UP YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE LIBGUIDES: FIND AUTHORITATIVE GUIDES FROM LIBRARIANS ON A TOPIC OF INTEREST TO YOU NETVIBES: CONSTRUCT A SOCIAL MEDIA LISTENING DASHBOARD -- to see what others are saying (about you?)

WOLFRAM ALPHA NEW SEARCH ENGINE: WWW. WOLFRAMALPHA. COM WWW. WOLFRAMALPHA. COM

H ERE IS A TYPICAL GOOGLE SEARCH ON MARTIN LUTHER KING : NOTE THAT OUT OF OVER 11 MILLION RESULTS, A SITE CALLING ITSELF A TRUE HISTORICAL EXAMINATION IS RANKED 4 TH BY G OOGLE.

H ERE IS THAT SITE : REMEMBER 4 TH RANKED BY G OOGLE. N OTICE ANY PROBLEMS ?

G OOGLE ’ S ADVANCED SEARCH OPTION : WWW. GOOGLE. COM / ADVANCED _ SEARCH I N THIS EXAMPLE WE ARE LOOKING FOR P OWERPOINTS ON MLK FROM ANY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION ( LIMITING TO. EDU AND FILE TYPE = P OWERPOINTS ) WWW. GOOGLE. COM / ADVANCED _ SEARCH

W E NOW RETRIEVE MUCH BETTER SEARCH RESULTS IN THE ADVANCED SEARCH OPTION.

T ALKING ABOUT G OOGLE, HERE IS A GREAT 45 MINUTE VIDEO ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR THAT REALLY EXPLAINS THE INS AND OUTS OF SEARCHING : HTTP :// WWW. YOUTUBE. COM / WATCH ? V = B JB Y IPR R T F E& FEATURE = RELMFU HTTP :// WWW. YOUTUBE. COM / WATCH ? V = B JB Y IPR R T F E& FEATURE = RELMFU

O THER NEWER GENERATION SEARCH ENGINES WE WILL EXAMINE INCLUDE WOLFRAM ALPHA, SWEET SEARCH AND IPL (I NTERNET P UBLIC L IBRARY ) AND TWURDY. COM All these give consistently more authoritative search results. Wolfram Alpha : Sweet Search : IPL : (Internet Public Library) TWURDY.COM

E XAMPLE OF A CALCULATION IN W OLFRAM A LPHA : THE LIFE EXPECTANCY IN GHANA

IPL: INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY WWW. IPL. ORG WWW. IPL. ORG

A NEW SEARCH ENGINE WWW. TWURDY. COM

S EARCH ON “S OCIAL M EDIA AND L IBRARIES ” IN THE N EW T WURDY S EARCH E NGINE : WWW. TWURDY. COM WWW. TWURDY. COM

S WEET S EARCH : HTTP :// WWW. SWEETSEARCH. COM / NOTE RESEARCH TUTORIALS AVAILABLE HTTP :// WWW. SWEETSEARCH. COM /

E XAMPLE OF A SEARCH ON “ SHAKESPEARE PLOT SUMMARIES ”

WEB PAGE EVALUATION : SOME USEFUL SITES Checklist for Evaluating Web Pages nternet/EvalForm_General_Barker.pdf Class Handouts for Teaching Web Searching : nternet/Handouts.html nternet/Handouts.html Internet Tutorials from SUNY ALBANY :

NEW L ESSON P LANS FROM G OOGLE FOR EDUCATORS LESSON PLANS FROM GOOGLE: ducation/lessons.html ducation/lessons.html GOOGLE LESSON PLAN SEARCH: LESSON PLANS USING GOOGLE ON MANY TOPICS: plan-search.html plan-search.html

LIBGUIDES : AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE TO FIND (QUICKLY) THE BEST WEB SITES IN A SUBJECT AREA: HTTP :// LIBGUIDES. COM / COMMUNITY. PHP ? M = G HTTP :// LIBGUIDES. COM / COMMUNITY. PHP ? M = G

PART II : SOURCES OF FREE ONLINE BOOKS Besides the ones noted in the following Powerpoint slides, also consult the U of Pennsylvania Online Books Page : The Online Books Page includes 40,000 free, online books and is growing rapidly. Also check out Free eBooks (the classics) hosted by the University of Adelaide, Australia: One can search this collection by title, author and subject. New e-Books are listed every month

ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF FREE BOOKS FOR STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS BLOOMSBURY : FLATWORLDKNOWLDEDGE: OER COMMONS TEXTBOOKS : WIKIBOOKS : CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY : THE TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION :

E XAMPLE OF A F REE T EXT B OOK FROM WWW. FLATWORLDKNOWLEDGE. COM BUSINESS ENGLISH FOR SUCCESS WWW. FLATWORLDKNOWLEDGE. COM

A FULL TEXT BOOK FROM B LOOMSBURY : THE D IGITAL SCHOLAR : HTTP :// DX. DOI. ORG / / HTTP :// DX. DOI. ORG / /

OER TEXTBOOKS ( OER= OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES )

W IKI B OOKS

M ORE ON WIKIBOOKS

UC PRESS BOOKS: THESE BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREE: HTTP :// PUBLISHING. CDLIB. ORG / UCPRESSEBOOKS // SEARCH ? BROWSE - TITLE = AA ; SORT = TITLE ; RIGHTS =P UBLIC ; STYLE = ESCHOL ; BRAND = ESCHOL HTTP :// PUBLISHING. CDLIB. ORG / UCPRESSEBOOKS // SEARCH ? BROWSE - TITLE = AA ; SORT = TITLE ; RIGHTS =P UBLIC ; STYLE = ESCHOL ; BRAND = ESCHOL

TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION

PART 3: OPEN ACCESS DATABASES: DATABASES FREE OF CHARGE, FULL TEXT RESOURCES DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals UNESCO’s GOAP Open DOAR LSE REPRINTS (London School of Economics) CALIFORNIA SCHOLARSHIP SSRN: (Social Sciences Research Network) covers Law, Medical Ethics, Business and Finance, Accounting, all Social Science Disciplines: must register, but registration is free

UNESCO’ S GLOBAL OPEN ACCESS PORTAL: HTTP :// WWW. UNESCO. ORG / NEW / EN / COMMUNICATION - AND - INFORMATION / PORTALS - AND - PLATFORMS / GOAP / HTTP :// WWW. UNESCO. ORG / NEW / EN / COMMUNICATION - AND - INFORMATION / PORTALS - AND - PLATFORMS / GOAP /

THEMATIC AREAS IN UNESCO’ S PORTAL HTTP :// WWW. UNESCO. ORG / NEW / EN / COMMUNICATION - AND - INFORMATION / PORTALS - AND - PLATFORMS / GOAP / THEMATIC - AREAS / HTTP :// WWW. UNESCO. ORG / NEW / EN / COMMUNICATION - AND - INFORMATION / PORTALS - AND - PLATFORMS / GOAP / THEMATIC - AREAS /

THEMATIC AREAS IN GOAP: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

OPENDOAR : HTTP :// WWW. OPENDOAR. ORG / COUNTRYLIST. PHP HTTP :// WWW. OPENDOAR. ORG / COUNTRYLIST. PHP

E LECTRONIC T HESES AND D ISSERTATIONS VIA OPEN ACCESS: HTTP :// ROAR. EPRINTS. ORG / VIEW / TYPE / THESES. HTML HTTP :// ROAR. EPRINTS. ORG / VIEW / TYPE / THESES. HTML

D IRECTORY OF O PEN A CCESS J OURNALS : ( DOAJ ) OVER 7800 JOURNALS NOW COVERED : WWW. DOAJ. ORG WWW. DOAJ. ORG

SSRN : OVER 350,000 F ULL -TEXT PAPERS COVERED ; ALL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES : WWW. SSRN. COM WWW. SSRN. COM

E - SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE U CALIFORNIA SYSTEM: HTTP :// ESCHOLARSHIP. ORG / GATEWAY R ESEARCHERS. HTML HTTP :// ESCHOLARSHIP. ORG / GATEWAY R ESEARCHERS. HTML

R ESULTS OF A SEARCH ON GHANA

OAISTER : OVER 25 MILLION ITEMS : OAISTER. WORLDCAT. ORG OAISTER. WORLDCAT. ORG

R ESULTS OF A SEARCH ON THE “ARAB SPRING” IN OAISTER

C OMPLETE TEXT OF ARTICLE RETRIEVED

PART IV : WEB 2.0 TOOLS TWITTER SEARCH HOOTSUITE NETVIBES COMMONCRAFT VIDEOS ADDICTOMATIC (yes! ADDICTOMATIC!) GOOGLE CUSTOMIZATION

TWITTER : T HE 10 C OMMANDMENTS OF T WITTER FOR A CADEMICS : HTTP :// CHRONICLE. COM / ARTICLE /10-C OMMANDMENTS - OF -T WITTER - FOR /131813/ HTTP :// CHRONICLE. COM / ARTICLE /10-C OMMANDMENTS - OF -T WITTER - FOR /131813/

HOW TO FIND PEOPLE OR TOPICS ON TWITTER: TWITTER. COM / SEARCH TWITTER. COM / SEARCH

R ESULTS OF A T WITTER S EARCH ON “S OCIAL M EDIA AND L IBRARIES ”

HOOTSUITE: MANAGE YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA: WWW. HOOTSUITE. COM CAN VIEW ALL SOCIAL MEDIA ASSETS IN ONE DASHBOARD : FACEBOOK, T WITTER, ETC WWW. HOOTSUITE. COM

HOOTSUITE: CAN ADD A SEARCH AND ALL UPDATES ARE AUTOMATICALLY FOUND ON YOUR DASHBOARD

HOOTSUITE : HERE WE CREATE A SEARCH ON SCIENCE AND ADDED A TAB

FEED YOUR MIND : THE LATEST NEWS ON ANY TOPIC WITH NETVIBES : WWW. NETVIBES. COM INCLUDING LATEST ARTICLES FROM YOUR FAVORITE MAGAZINES. T HE IRC ACCRA WILL OFFER MONTHLY SESSIONS ON NETVIBES BEGINNING THIS F ALL. WWW. NETVIBES. COM

ADDICTOMATIC : MAKES SOCIAL MEDIA SEARCHING EASY!!! WWW. ADDICTOMATIC. COM WWW. ADDICTOMATIC. COM

ADDICTOMATIC : CREATING AN EASY WEB PAGE ON ANY TOPIC THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA ASSETS: RESULTS OF OUR SEARCH ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

C OMMONCRAFT VIDEOS EXPLAINING IN P LAIN E NGLISH LATEST CONCEPTS : NOTE THE VIDEOS EXPLAINING SOCIAL MEDIA WWW. COMMONCRAFT. COM WWW. COMMONCRAFT. COM

G OOGLE C USTOMIZATION : CREATE YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE: WWW. GOOGLE. COM / CSE WWW. GOOGLE. COM / CSE

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE : WEBSITE WITH INSTRUCTIONS: please go to You will find a free POWERPOINT (in the POWERPOINT SECTION of the above web site) and step by step directions in a word document on using Google Customization to create your own search engine. The IRC ACCRA will offer monthly sessions on how to create your own Search Engine beginning Fall 2012!

L IST OF G OOGLE C USTOMIZED S EARCH E NGINES THE IRC ACCRA CREATED. N OW, G O C REATE YOURS ! CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE for Education and Locating Free Lesson Plans: Custom Search Engine for Library and Information Science: CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE FOR THESES AND DISSERTATIONS and THINK TANKS f5tlirivswwww.google.com/cse/home?cx= %3A- f5tlirivsw CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE FOR U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SOURCES fiushweyxgghttp:// fiushweyxgg Custom Search Engine for Free Distance Education Courses (FIND A COURSE WITH LECTURE NOTES AND VIDEO, AUDIO CONTENT): Custom Search Engine for Economics and Economic Research: (Constructed with the help of the American Corner at the University of Ghana at an IRC/IRO Accra Seminar)

I F YOU WOULD LIKE IRC ACCRA SEMINARS ON ANY OF THESE TOPICS, PLEASE LET US KNOW ! You can find us through: FACEBOOK : IRC ACCRA OUR PHONE NUMBER : We are located at the U.S. EMBASSY, ACCRA, GHANA, on 4 th Circular Road, in the Cantonments area of Accra. IRO STEVE PERRY and IRC DIRECTOR, RITA AWUKU: YOUR FRIENDLY CYBERGUIDES TO SOCIAL MEDIA !

NEWER VERSIONS OF THIS PPT WILL ALWAYS BE FOUND HERE :