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Information UpdateNovember 2012

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VISUWORDS – Online graphical thesaurus

• An online dictionary and thesaurus tool

• Shows word’s meaning

• Associates word with others and shows visual interface

• Attach more associated nodes with the word

• Hover your mouse over each node to get its definition and meaning

http://visuwords.com

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VISUWORDS – Online graphical thesaurus

http://visuwords.com

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Behind the magic words

• My personal little project: A-Z of Thesauri• Feel free to use and share

• Let’s make it our little project…

• Please help to expand it

• Send suggestions to my email

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgNyxTHaE6YhdE03V2k3N0MxdnBTYm9abnByN1NEeWc

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Google books Ngram Viewer

• Ngram Viewer lets you find and visualize how words and phrases have developed and been used over time using the 30 million print books Google has scanned working with libraries located around the world as its dataset.

• Now in 9 languages: Italian, English, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Hebrew, and Russian.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/

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Google Updates

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Find Public Google Docs

• Useful queries that let you find public Google Drive/Docs files (you can append some keywords to the queries): • [site:docs.google.com/document/d] - find text document• [site:docs.google.com/presentation/d] - find presentations• [site:docs.google.com/drawings/d] - find drawings• [site:docs.google.com/file/d] - find files: images, videos, PDF files,

Microsoft Office documents and more (you should click "repeat the search with the omitted results included" since there are many files with similar titles)

• [site:docs.google.com/folder/d] - find folders (collections of files and

other folders)• [site:docs.google.com/open] - find other documents, folders and files

(the links redirect to other URLs)

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Google Scholar – Cite from Search results

• Google scholar added the ability to copy-and-paste formatted citations from search results

• To copy a formatted citation, click on the “Cite” link below a search result and select from the available citation styles (currently MLA, APA, or Chicago):

http://scholar.google.com/

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Google Scholar – Cite from Search results

http://scholar.google.com/

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Google Scholar – Cite from Search results

http://scholar.google.com/

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Google Scholar – My Updates

• If you have made a personal profile on Google Scholar, there is a new feature: “My updates”, a list of new articles that Google’s algorithm determines are related to your own work

http://scholar.google.com/

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The New Google Trends

• Google Trends & “Google Insights for Search” have been merged

http://www.google.com/trends/

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The New Google Trends

• The new Google Trends is a simplified version of Insights for Search:• Predictions

• Comparing locations and time ranges

• Finding the most popular queries from a region

• Restricting results to a category or a date range

• Checking results from specialized search engines:• Image Search• Google News• Google Shopping

http://www.google.com/trends/

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The New Google Trends

• The new Google Trends is a simplified version of Insights for Search:

http://www.google.com/trends/

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The New Google Trends

• Web, Images, News, Products

http://www.google.com/trends/

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The New Google Trends

• Keyword Comparison

http://www.google.com/trends/

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The New Google Trends

• Location Comparison

http://www.google.com/trends/

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The New Google Trends

• Time Range comparison

http://www.google.com/trends/

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The New Google Trends

Related Terms - Top Related Terms - Rising

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The New Google Trends – Casualties…

• Google Trends for Websites is no longer available

• Headlines are no longer displayed next to the chart• You can still find them when you mouse over the chart

http://www.google.com/trends/

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Google Patents

• New Coverage:

• USPTO -  the United States Patent and Trademark Office • from 1790

• EPO - European Patent Office • from 1978

www.google.com/patents

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Google Patents – Prior Art Finder

• The Prior Art Finder identifies key phrases from the text of the patent, combines them into a search query, and displays relevant results from:

• Google Patents

• Google Scholar

• Google Books

• The rest of the web

www.google.com/patents

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Google Sets

• Google Sets is still available as a Google Sheets feature:

• Create a new spreadsheet in Google Drive,

• Type mazda in A1 and honda in A2 (the first column)

• Highlight the two cells and then press Ctrl (or Option for Mac) while

clicking and dragging the small blue box from the lower-right corner to

select additional cells where to place the Google Sets results

https://drive.google.com/#my-drive

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Google Sets

Google Sets is still available as a Google Sheets feature.

https://drive.google.com/#my-drive

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Google Catalogs

• Catalogs on Google Shopping includes more than 25 categories.

• Click on a specific issue to open the viewer• peruse the pages• zoom in to see products up close.

• Clicking ‘View Details’ takes you directly to the retailer’s site to make the purchase

http://www.google.com/catalogs

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Gmail – Search inside Attachments

www.gmail.com

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Google – Cultural Institute 

• New online historical exhibitions telling the stories behind major events of the last century, including Apartheid, D-Day and the Holocaust.

• The stories have been put together by 29 partners including museums and cultural foundations who have drawn on their archives of letters, manuscripts, first-hand video testimonials and much more.

• Much of the material is on the Internet for the first time.

• Read more 

http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/#!home

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General Information

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Choose the best search for your information needs

• I need to define my topic...

• I need to find quality results...

• I need to do research in a specific discipline...

• The timeliness of information that I need is...

• I need facts...

• I need opinions and perspectives...

• I need a specific type of media..

• I have special search requirements..

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

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Government Information

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Google Advanced Search

• Search US Government Information • Site:.gov

• Search Non US Government information• Site:.gov.*

www.google.com

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Country Code Extensions

• a full list of country code extensions from each country

• These extensions include the top-level domain

as well as any second and/or third level domain from

each country.

• All country domain extensions are listed alphabetically

by country.

http://www.quackit.com/domain-names/country_domain_extensions.cfm

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