1. WISER Science Finding quality information on the internet
Monday, 20 November 2006
Karen Langdon & Penny Roberts

2. Web Search Tools Meta search engines Portals Web directories

3. Choosing a Search Engine
Size, content and currency
Search facilities
Ease of use (Help facilities)
Quantity and precision of results
Presentation of results (customisation)

4. Academic Search Engines
Scirus
Google Scholar

5. Search engines Beware! Ranking can be manipulated
Sponsored sites appear first

6. Search techniques Advanced Search techniques Boolean operators
Proximity operators
Truncation
Synonyms
Web operators

7. Evaluating web resources
Reliable
Verifiable
Current
Specific/Comprehensive
Objective

8. Wikis Check Edit page Look out for editor’s notes
Look at Talk page/Discussion
May be uninformed
May express personal opinions, grievances

9. Feedback
You will get an with the online evaluation form in due course

10. Next session: Conferences
This session will enable you to find out about forthcoming
conferences and also to locate the published papers of
proceedings that have taken place
Monday, 27 November 2006
Roger Mills