1. English 1213 Dr. Collins Session 4 Defining the World Wide Web & Web Resources

2. Part 1 Defining the World Wide Web

3. Web Searching is easy because….. Speed Choice Availability 24/7 Always get an answer

4. Web searching is difficult because… Lack of Organization Lack of Quality control Lack of Reliability

5. Strengths: Web vs. Library Web  Current events and news  Statistics and Other Information by Gov.’t  Full-text Resources (expired copyright)  Pop Culture TV Movies Music  Opinion  Information about Organizations & Groups Library  Research Based Books & Articles  Works Cited/ Bibliographies  Full-text Resources  Authoritative & Peer- reviewed Materials  Information about People & Cultures  Easier to Search Library Catalog Databases

6. Timeframe for Info Books Articles Newspapers Web Pages Once Quarterly – Weekly Daily – Multiple Ed. Hourly – Anytime

7. Why Can’t I Get this Info on the Web? Humanities  American History $29.95 / yr  Journal of Teacher Education $30 / yr  College English $75 / yr Nursing & Allied Health  Applied Nursing Research $224 / yr  Nursing Science Quarterly $280 / yr  Journal of Community Health Nursing $475 / yr Sciences  Journal of the Optical Society of America $1,760 / yr  Journal of the American Chemical Society $3,589 / yr  Journal of Physics $7,115 / yr This doesn’t include pricing for electronic access or database subscriptions.

8. Surface Web Ever wonder what you might be missing? Google 2.7 billion searches per month Indexes a trillion web pages Indexes 16% of the Surface Web Indexes 0.03% of the entire World Wide Web

9. Deep Web (or Hidden Web) NO SEARCH ENGINES ALLOWED 54% of DW is databases DW is 500 times larger than SW And a 1,000 times higher in quality too

10. Part 2 Web Resources

11. http://searchenginewatch.com Web searching tips Search engine listings Search engine ratings (which is rated better?) Tutorials News  Buying Your Way In (paid listings in search engines) Buying Your Way In Fun Stuff  Sprechen Sie Search Engines? Sprechen Sie Search Engines?

12. Directory Electronic Yellow Pages Organized into categories Point & click searching

13. Search Engine Simply searches Prominent search box Google voted “Most Outstanding Search Engine” 4 times Lycos, the oldest search engine on the web (‘94)

14. Metasearch Engine Utilize search engines and directories to compile comprehensive results “one-stop” searching Dogpile voted “Best Meta Search Engine” Vivísimo voted “Best Meta Search Engine” (’02) Mamma, the oldest metasearch engine on the web (’96)

15. Specialty Web Tools Kartoo, a visual search tool Ditto, an image search engine Radio-Locator, a audio/radio station search engine KidsClick!, a kids friendly search tool

16. Government Web Tools USAGov, (formerly FirstGov) director of federal gov’t websites SoonerSearch, a portal to Oklahoma gov’t websites Unclesam, a version of Google that searches only gov’t websites Infomine, access to university level research on gov’t info

17. Part 2a Digital Collections

18. Digital Collections http://faculty.swosu.edu/jason.dupree/links.html  American Memory  Virginia eText Center  NYPL  UFDC

19. Part 2b LibGuides

20. http://libguides.swosu.edu/  Research Information – websites vetted by librarians  “How To” Guides  Ask a Librarian embedded

21. End of Session 4 Thank You for listening