1 Business Information Module 2: Seeking for business information – Web-based information resources Part A: Getting started International Summer School on Information Literacy, funded by CEI, September 2007, Fermo, Italy Sabina Cisek, PhD Associate Professor Institute of Information and Library Science Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
2 Getting started Web searching tips General Internet resources Business information „starting points” Business dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries
3 Web searching tips Do not rely on a single source –You need to cross-check information –What if it would be out of service? There are millions of search engines and other search services – global and local, general-purpose and specialized – not only Google Do not believe in everything – evaluate information and Websites Use searching functionalities – advanced search, Boolean connectors, help, operators (+, -, define), phrase searching, etc. Discussion: How to decide whether a website contains reliable information? Criteria for information evaluation?
4 General Internet resources and services (I) – may be useful for business information General-purpose, global in scope, search engines/services –AltaVista –AlltheWeb –Dogpile –Google –Mamma –MSN.com –Yahoo –and many, many more …
5 General Internet resources and services – … (II) Quality-controlled subject/information gateways –Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web librarian.com/ librarian.com/ –Intute –Librarians’ Internet Index –RefDesk –The WWW Virtual Library
6 General Internet resources and services – … (III) Deep Web / Invisible Web search tools –CompletePlanet –Deep Web Research [weblog] –The SearchSystems.net Public Records Directory Scholarly search services –Google Scholar –INFOMINE
7 Open Access full texts – archives, digital collections, full-text databases, e-journals, repositories … DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals Fulltext Sources Online online.com/home_login.cfm?sid= http:// online.com/home_login.cfm?sid= LookSmarts’ Find Articles Oaister: OpenDOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories
8 Business information „starting points” – specialized search engines, subject gateways and Web directories – business, economics, management (I) AllBuziness: BRINT the World's No. 1 Resource for Business Technology Management and Knowledge Management: Business.com:
9 Business information „starting points” – … (II) CEOExpress: European business directory: globalEDGE: Inomics® EconDirectory:
10 Business information „starting points” – … (III) Intute: Social Sciences: Krislyn’s Strictly Business Site: RBA Business Information on the Internet: The WWW Virtual Library – Business and Economics:
11 Business dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries Finding dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries: –EuroTermBank –Glossarist – Business –OneLook Dictionary Search About.com: Economics About.com: Business and Finance Answers.com – Business globalEdge – Glossary Assignment: Using business information „starting points” find two more dictionaries/glossaries. Work in pairs.