1. Web Research Angela Benson Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

2. Agenda Internet versus Web Searching the Web  Subject directories  Search engines  Discussion list searches  Search strategies  Web site evaluation Searching the “Deep Web” Issues  Citing Web Resources  Plagiarism Questions and Wrap-Up

3. Definitions Internet  A vast global network of millions of computers Web  A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents.  The World Wide Web is a way of accessing information over the Internet. Source: http://www.webopedia.com/http://www.webopedia.com/

4. What is the Web URL – Uniform Resource Locator  protocol://host/path/filename http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/abenson/trio/web_research.ppt  Protocol: http  Host: faculty.ed.uiuc.edu  Path: abenson, trio  Filename: internet_research.ppt

5. Domain Names (for hosts).com – commercial.edu – education.gov – U.S. government.org – non-profit organization.net – network access provider.mil – military Country .uk – United Kingdom .ca – Canada Not absolutes!

6. Web Directories General topics to explore Good for browsing topics Maintained by people, many times experts or authorities Examples  http://www.yahoo.com, Commercial http://www.yahoo.com User-submitted sites  http://infomine.ucr.edu, Academic http://infomine.ucr.edu Academically reviewed and approved sites

7. Search Engines Program finds and indexes sites Keyword search, more specific Good when searching for something specific Examples  http://www.google.com/ http://www.google.com/  http://www.alltheweb.com (meta-search engine) http://www.alltheweb.com  http://www.askjeeves.com http://www.askjeeves.com  http://www.google.com http://www.google.com

8. Discussion Lists Mailing lists and newsgroup directories Examples  http://www.liszt.com/ (mailing lists) http://www.liszt.com/  http://www.google.com/ (newsgroups) http://www.google.com/

9. Search Strategy Questions What do you want to know? What are the key concepts or topics? What keywords define those concepts/topics? (include synonyms) What is the relationship between the keywords? How does the search tool you’re using require you to specify that relationship?

10. Useful URLs Web Search Cheat Sheet  http://www.colosys.net/search/ http://www.colosys.net/search/ Find Spot  http://findspot.com/ http://findspot.com/

11. Search Exercise Find sites on an area of interest to you

12. Evaluating Web Resources Points to consider  Purpose  Author, Publisher  Intended Audience  Perspective  Currency  Accuracy  Links Evaluation Guides  http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluat e.html http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluat e.html  http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html

13. Deep Web Web databases not accessible by search engines Many fee-based Also called “invisible Web” A White Paper  http://www.brightplanet.com/deepcontent/tutorials/Deep Web/index.asp Examples  University Library, e.g., http://www.library.uiuc.edu/http://www.library.uiuc.edu/  Virtual Library, e.g., http://www.vlibrary.org/http://www.vlibrary.org/

14. Deep Web Exercise Find resources available to you  University  Local Library

15. Citing Web Resources Web Citations  http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/cite. htm http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/cite. htm Citation Managers  EndNote at http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/  RefWorks at http://www.refworks.com/http://www.refworks.com/  Article about the two http://www.istl.org/02-summer/article4.html

16. Plagiarism What it is  Using ideas and expressions without citing the source. Why it’s easier on the Web  Copy-and-paste  Buying papers online How to spot it  http://www.plagiarism.org/ http://www.plagiarism.org/ How to prevent it  Inform students More information:  http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm

17. Useful URLs University of Michigan School of Information  http://www.ipl.org/ http://www.ipl.org/ University of Albany Library  http://library.albany.edu/internet/ http://library.albany.edu/internet/ UC-Berkeley Library  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides /Internet/FindInfo.html http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides /Internet/FindInfo.html