1. 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?)

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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 : www.wolframalpha.comwww.wolframalpha.com Sweet Search : www.sweetsearch.comwww.sweetsearch.com IPL : (Internet Public Library) www.ipl.orgwww.ipl.org TWURDY.COM

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

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

11. A NEW SEARCH ENGINE WWW. TWURDY. COM

12. 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

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

14. E XAMPLE OF A SEARCH ON “ SHAKESPEARE PLOT SUMMARIES ”

15. WEB PAGE EVALUATION : SOME USEFUL SITES Checklist for Evaluating Web Pages http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/I nternet/EvalForm_General_Barker.pdf Class Handouts for Teaching Web Searching : http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/I nternet/Handouts.html http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/I nternet/Handouts.html Internet Tutorials from SUNY ALBANY : http://library.albany.edu/usered/ http://library.albany.edu/usered/

16. NEW L ESSON P LANS FROM G OOGLE FOR EDUCATORS LESSON PLANS FROM GOOGLE: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searche ducation/lessons.html http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searche ducation/lessons.html GOOGLE LESSON PLAN SEARCH: LESSON PLANS USING GOOGLE ON MANY TOPICS: http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/lesson- plan-search.html http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/lesson- plan-search.html

17. 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

18. 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 : http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html 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: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/authors.html http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/authors.html One can search this collection by title, author and subject. New e-Books are listed every month

19. ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF FREE BOOKS FOR STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS BLOOMSBURY : http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/browse?mode=book http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/browse?mode=book FLATWORLDKNOWLDEDGE: http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com OER COMMONS TEXTBOOKS : http://tinyurl.com/yeqd28w http://tinyurl.com/yeqd28w WIKIBOOKS : www.wikibooks.org www.wikibooks.org CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY : http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/ http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/ THE TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION : http://www.textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page http://www.textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page

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

21. A FULL TEXT BOOK FROM B LOOMSBURY : THE D IGITAL SCHOLAR : HTTP :// DX. DOI. ORG /10.5040/9781849666275 HTTP :// DX. DOI. ORG /10.5040/9781849666275

22. OER TEXTBOOKS ( OER= OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES )

23. W IKI B OOKS

24. M ORE ON WIKIBOOKS

25. 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

26. TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION

27. 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

28. 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 /

29. 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 /

30. THEMATIC AREAS IN GOAP: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

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

32. 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

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

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

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

36. R ESULTS OF A SEARCH ON GHANA

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

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

39. C OMPLETE TEXT OF ARTICLE RETRIEVED

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

41. 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/

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

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

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

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

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

47. 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

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

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

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

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

52. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE : WEBSITE WITH INSTRUCTIONS: please go to www.tinyurl.com/6dfaxn www.tinyurl.com/6dfaxn 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!

53. 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: http://tinyurl.com/7sserqx http://tinyurl.com/7sserqx Custom Search Engine for Library and Information Science: www.tinyurl.com/7vr7yle www.tinyurl.com/7vr7yle CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE FOR THESES AND DISSERTATIONS and THINK TANKS www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011094389090557246315%3A- f5tlirivswwww.google.com/cse/home?cx=011094389090557246315%3A- f5tlirivsw CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE FOR U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SOURCES http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011094389090557246315%3A fiushweyxgghttp://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011094389090557246315%3A fiushweyxgg Custom Search Engine for Free Distance Education Courses (FIND A COURSE WITH LECTURE NOTES AND VIDEO, AUDIO CONTENT): http://www.tinyurl.com/8xtsw7khttp://www.tinyurl.com/8xtsw7k Custom Search Engine for Economics and Economic Research: http://www.tinyurl.com/88rmasj (Constructed with the help of the American Corner at the University of Ghana at an IRC/IRO Accra Seminar) http://www.tinyurl.com/88rmasj

54. I F YOU WOULD LIKE IRC ACCRA SEMINARS ON ANY OF THESE TOPICS, PLEASE LET US KNOW ! You can find us through: FACEBOOK : http://www.facebook.com/USEmbassyGhana http://www.facebook.com/USEmbassyGhana IRC ACCRA EMAIL : ircaccra@state.gov ircaccra@state.gov OUR PHONE NUMBER : +233 302 741 919 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 !

55. NEWER VERSIONS OF THIS PPT WILL ALWAYS BE FOUND HERE : http://www.tinyurl.com/6dfaxn