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EMPOWERING WOMEN,
EMPOWERING ALUMNI TO BE
BETTER RESEARCHERS: A
HOW-TO GUIDE
by IRO STEPHEN PERRY, WASHINGTON, D.C. for WOMEN’s HISTORY MONTH 2011
EMAIL: [email protected]: 202-632-2747
RESEARCH MADE EASIER WITH A WINNING STRATEGY!
SEARCH ENGINES: PART ONE
In this section, we will look at google, how to limit searches in google, google search tips, and other newer search engines that might prove to be more useful and more productive for your specific topic.
PART
1
SECRETS OF USING GOOGLE
Google is a massive database, and in the missions of potential Search Results you might retrieve, it is not especially easy to find quickly everything you need or want.
There are many sites, especially that end with a .com or a .org that are outdated, have links that no longer work, or that reflect the very narrow points of view of a larger parent organization.
Remember: No one evaluates any of the sites brought up by a Google Search: neither Google nor anyone else. Therefore it is up to you to evaluate each site for relevancy and accuracy.
HERE IS A SITE ABOUT MLK, JR. THAT APPEARS TO BE RELEVANT, BUT ACTUALLY REFLECTS THE VIEWPOINT OF ITS LARGER PARENT ORGANIZATION, A WHITE SUPREMACIST ORGANIZATION: THE URL HOWEVER APPEARS TO BE RELEVANT www.martinlutherking.org
WILL GOOGLE BRING UP SITES LIKE THIS? YES, ALL TOO OFTEN Therefore, learning to be a better
searcher and learning to refine results is always a necessary skill.
There are many Google “Cheat Sheets” out there: for understanding Google Search Features http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html
Some of the most popular features of conducting an intelligent Google Search are listed on this site.
TO ELIMINATE BAD SEARCH RESULTS, ONE TRICK IS TO LIMIT ALL RESULTS TO .EDU SITES (ADD AND SITE: EDU AFTER YOUR SEARCH)
YOU CAN ALSO LIMIT THE SEARCH TO JUST .GOV SITES BY SEARCHING GOOGLE UNCLE SAM: WWW.GOOGLE.COM/UNCLESAM
OTHER SEARCH ENGINES ARE THE FOLLOWING: WWW.IPL.ORG (SITES CHOSEN BY LIBRARIANS AS THE MOST TRUSTWORTHY AND AUTHORITATIVE.)
BLEKKO: WWW.BLEKKO.ORG
Explanation of how to use blekko at: http://blekko.com/ws/+/press-videos?h=1
Analysis of BLEKKO: http://www.infotoday.com/online/mar11/On-The-Net-blekko-A-New-Search-Approach.shtml
Helps eliminate “content farms” and bad search results through use of slash tags /
Example in next slide using slashtag /people for a search on Rosa Parks
BLEKKO SEARCH EXAMPLE
SEARCH RESULTS RETRIEVED BY faganfinder.com
HERE ARE VIDEOS/DOCUMENTARIES ON THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FROM www.faganfinder.com
SEARCHING FOR FULL-TEXT JOURNAL ARTICLES: PART 2
We will look at primarily DOAJ: the Directory of Online Access Journals at: www.doaj.org
This database covers 6,500 journals and covers all subject disciplines
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DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS: DOAJ www.doaj.org
FROM DOAJ
THERE ARE MANY TABLES OF CONTENT SERVICES (ToC) FOR JOURNALS/MAGAZINES
Among these are: ICAST: http://www.icast.org.in/ejournal/ejournal.php
E-JOURNALS: http://www.e-journals.org CURRENT TABLES OF CONTENTS:
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/index.php Journal TOCs makes viewing tables of contents from scholarly
journals easy. This resource features the table of contents (ToCs) for over 14,000 journals from more than 500 publishers, with more being added continuously and features TOCs from publishers such as Elsevier, SAGE, Oxford University Press, etc.
OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS CONSORTIUM: more Ejournals
included all the time, updated: all free text and online. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/
ICAST: http://www.icast.org.in/ejournal/ejournal.php
JOURNAL ToC’s: http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/index.php
FREE DATABASES FOR RESEARCHERS: PART 3
In this section, we will look at the following full-text databases:
Public Library of Medicine (PLoS): http://www.plos.org/
MEDLINE PLUS: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ and other databases in Health/Medicine
and OAISTER from WORLDCAT: http://oaister.worldcat.org
PART
3
OTHER DATABASES WE WILL DISCUSS INCLUDE: RePeC: Economics Topics and Ideas:
http://ideas.repec.org (includes related fields in the Social Sciences)
RFE: Resources for Economists: http://rfe.org
SSRN: The Social Sciences Research Network: www.ssrn.com
Free Educational Videos and Lesson Plans from the Annenberg Foundation: www.learner.org
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE (PLoS)
NOTE TWO FEATURES OF PLoS
Open Access: “Everything we publish is freely available online for you to read, download, copy, distribute, and use (with attribution) any way you wish.”
http://www.plos.org/
“PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. All our activities are guided by our core principles.”
HERE IS PLoS FOR MEDICINE: NOTE THAT YOU CAN SEARCH FOR ARTICLES: http://www.plosmedicine.org/home.action
FOR MEDICAL/HEALTH INFORMATION, MEDLINE PLUS, from The National Library of Medicine
MEDLINE PLUS EXPLAINED
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
MEDLINEplus will direct you to information to help answer health questions.
Search MEDLINEplus: MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations.
Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.
HEALTH INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE:MEDLINEPLUS.GOV
Why you should always start here:
Multiple sources of high quality information
Non-commercial
Constantly updated
and reviewed
SPECIAL FEATURES: TUTORIALS
Diseases, treatments, and surgeries
Illustrations and animations
Information is read aloud
HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A FREE TUTORIAL: “HOW TO EVALUATE HEALTH INFORMATION ON THE ‘NET: “ http://nihseniorhealth.gov/toolkit/toolkit.html
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Health information in over 40 different languages
Easy-to-read information for low literacy patrons
MEDICINES AND HERBS ARE ALL DISCUSSED IN MEDLINE PLUS
FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND RESEARCHERS WHO WISH TO GO INTO DEPTH: PUBMED.GOV IS AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE
Oaister: A DATABASE OF SOME 20 MILLION ITEMS IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES: http://oaister.worldcat.org
NOTE SEARCH AND RESULTS ON THE RIGHT (Oaister: www.oaister.worldcat.org)
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF BOOK RETRIEVED IN OAISTER:
FREE RESEARCH ORIENTED DATABASES FOR MANY FIELDS/MANY SUBJECTS: RePEc (ECONOMICS)
IN RePeC (http://ideas.repec.org) results of a search on “Women and Entrepreneurship”
NOTE ALL ARTICLES ARE DOWNLOADABLE IN FULL-TEXT IN RePeC; example of a fulltext article here
ANOTHER FREE DATABASE FOR ECONOMICS IS RFE: RESOURCES FOR ECONOMISTS, FROM THE AMERICAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION www.rfe.org
SSRN: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK: www.ssrn.com (covers all fields in the Social Sciences)
The Social Science Research Network, SSRN, covers 310,000 papers and articles published in all aspects of the Social Sciences, including related fields. It is updated weekly.
It includes the Full Text of each and every paper, which can then easily be downloaded.
SSRN is free, but you do need to register; registration takes minutes.
FROM THE SSRN DATABASE SEARCH FUNCTION (SEARCHING THE eLIBRARY)
FROM THE SSRN DATABASE
HERE IS THE FULL TEXT ARTICLE FROM SSRN
ANOTHER FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION FROM SSRN DATABASE
NOTE THAT YOU CAN SPECIFY AGE GROUP/LEVEL
Social Sciences by Age level
Individual Videos for the Lesson on the U.S.
Constitution: all free @www.learner.org
HIGHLY SELECTIVE ACCESS TO FULL-TEXT THESES, DISSERTATIONS AND SPECIALIZED RESEARCH STUDIES FROM LEADING UNIVERSITIES
Examples I will discuss include:
The University of Maryland: DRUM= Digitized Resources at the University of Maryland www.lib.umd.edu/drum/
MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: http://dspace.mit.edu
Harvard University (DASH): Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard http://dash.harvard.edu
PART
4
OTHER UNIVERSITIES IN THE U.S. PROVIDING HIGHLY SELECTIVE ACCESS TO RESEARCH STUDIES AND DISSERTATIONS/ THESES INCLUDE
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY): http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/39
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/co
mmunity-list
EXAMPLE OF A RECENT DISSERTATION ON JOURNALISM
FULL TEXT OF DISSERTATION
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/community-list
From the University of Michigan’s Deep Blue site
MIT: http://dspace.mit.edu
EXAMPLE OF AN MIT DISSERTATION
CORNELL UNIVERSITY: THESES AND DISSERTATIONS: http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/39
EXAMPLE OF FULL-TEXT DISSERTATION AT CORNELL
HARVARD’S DASH: DIGITAL ACCESS TO SCHOLARSHIP AT HARVARD: http://dash.harvard.edu
EXAMPLE OF A FACULTY STUDY AT HARVARD
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A FACULTY STUDY AT HARVARD: ALL FULL TEXT; AVAILABLE THROUGH THE DASH SITE
FREE DISTANCE EDUCATION SITES TO BETTER PREPARE YOU ACADEMICALLY: PART 5
We will look at:
MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu
YALE: http://open.yale.edu
JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
OPEN SOURCE CONSORTIUM: http://ocwconsortium.org
PART
5
MIT MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT
MOBILE DEVELOPMENT AT MIT: COURSE PROJECTS
EXAMPLE OF A YALE COURSE ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND LAW
ACTUAL CLASS SESSIONS: VIEW EACH CLASS FOR ACCESS TO VIDEO, AUDIO LECTURES AND RELEVANT COURSE MATERIALS
JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
SPECIFIC COURSES ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES AT JOHNS HOPKINS
OTHER UNIVERSITIES OFFERING FREE COURSES IN THE U.S. http://ocwconsortium.org/members/members/country/us
NOTE: COURSES ARE NOT FOR CREDIT; just to promote understanding of a topic.
WEB SITES TO KEEP UP WITH ADVANCES AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN YOUR FIELD: PART 6
For SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY : www.sciencedaily.com
FOR MEDICINE/HEALTH: The Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/health-information/
For LEGAL/LAW: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
For other fields: TED= TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN VIDEOS FROM THE BEST SPEAKERS AROUND THE WORLD www.ted.com
PART
6
SCIENCE DAILY: UPDATED DAILY!
MAYO CLINIC: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health-information/
LEGAL NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS: UPDATED DAILY
VIDEOS FROM THE LEADING EDUCATORS/SCHOLARS ON JUST ABOUT EVERY CONCEIVABLE TOPIC (www.ted.com)
WE HOPE THESE RESOURCES ARE USEFUL TO YOU, AND THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Stephen Perry, IRO for Central Africa E-MAIL: [email protected] 202-632-2747 Washington, D.C. (Health/Medical Information is courtesy of IRO Paula
Kitendaugh in Dakar. My thanks to her.)
DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE NEW VIRTUAL LIBRARY, now called eLIBRARY USA, with many new databases, including EBSCO and Science, and many other full-text databases that you can now search yourself. Your local IRC or American Corner staff can log you in and get you started! Please search it today!
