Search Guide
Nov 12, 2003
Revised guide prepared for students
in the Ph.D. Progamme in Public Affairs, School of Public
Management and Administration, University of Pretoria and the
Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies, Gonzaga
University.
Guide to Search Engines | Evaluating Web Sites | Links to Search Engines | Specialized Search Resrouces | Commercial Search Systems | Libraries | Dissertations | APA and ProCite
Tool Kit for the Expert Web
Searcher Developed and maintained by Pat Ensor
of the Library and Information
Technology Association.
[http://www.lita.org/committe/toptech/toolkit.htm]
Search Engine Showdown.
Search Engine Showdown compares and evaluates Internet search
engines. The site includes, search engine features, detailed search
engine reviews, an online newsletter, statistical analysis, and
search strategies
[http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/]
Web Searching
Tips
[http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/]
What's the Best Search
Engine? By Chris Sherman,
[http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2215091]
Major Search Engines and
Directories By Danny Sullivan
[http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156221]
Evaluating Web sites: criteria and tools [http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html]
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet. Elizabeth E. Kirk Johns Hopkins University [http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/]
Criteria for evaluation of
Internet Information Resources. Alastair Smith, VUW Department
of Library and Information Studies, New Zealand.
[http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/]
Links to Search
Engines
AltaVista [http://www.altavista.com/]
HotBot [http://hotbot.lycos.com/]
Google [http://www.google.com/]
Northern Light [http://www.northernlight.com/]
Meta-Search Engines
VivÃsimo [http://vivisimo.com/] Automatically organizes search or database query results into hierarchical folders.
Metacrawler [http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html]
DogPile [http://www.dogpile.com/]
Genamics JournalSeek [http://genamics.com/journals/index.htm] Categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains more than 25,600 titles. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope) journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN. The database does not contain articles or abstracts.
You can use these systems to search for articles and other documents that you can order for a fee. You can, however, almost always find these materials through the library for free. When the library does not have the materials, you can use Interlibrary Loan. If you desperately need a reference, their price may not seem so unreasonable.
INGENTA [http://www.ingenta.com/] Claims to be the world's largest website for the search and delivery of research articles. Provides access to article summaries from over 27,000 publications with full text of many titles. Full text access is typically by instituional subscriptions. Non-subscribers can, for the majority of articles, pay-per-view.
Scirus [http://www.scirus.com/?h] Scirus is described as a powerful Internet search tool responding to the need for focused, comprehensive, and reliable overviews of relevant scientific information. Scirus distinguishes itself from existing search engines by concentrating on scientific content only and by searching both Web and membership sources. It enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to pinpoint data, locate university sites, and find reports and articles in an efficient manner. Full text article not available on the web can be ordered from [http://www.sciencedirect.com/].
InfoTrieve [http://www4.infotrieve.com/] A source for many of the hard-to-find scholarly journals which were formerly available through the now-defunct UMI InfoStore. The base price is $10.75 per article, plus a copyright fee.
Document Delivery Specialists - Social Sciences [http://www.docdel.com/Social_Sciences.html]
Instant Information Systems[http://www.docdel.com/index.html] Provider of biomedical literature.
EBSCO Information Services [http://ebsco.com/home/] Provides subscription services and full text and bibliographic database services. Usually accessible only through libraries.
Annual Reviews [http://www.annualreviews.org/]
Annual Reviews provides systematic, periodic examinations of
scholarly advances in a number of fields through critical
authoritative reviews. On-line access requires
subscription.
Foley Library at Gonzaga [http://www.foley.gonzaga.edu/]
Library of Congress and other university libraries [http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html]
Search on line at UMI [http://www.umi.com/hp/Products/Dissertations.html] For traditional dissertation services including prices, formats, how to order, etc., select Ordering Dissertations and Theses. Dissertation Express offers online ordering and ProQuest Digital Dissertations offers the search capabilities needed to locate citations and abstracts. Free search services are limited. (If you are a Gonzaga student but accessing this site from off-campus, please see the special instructions at the top of the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies, Dissertation Title web site.)
Dissertations done in the
Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies [http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/doctoral/titles.html]
APA
Information on electronic reference formats using APA. [http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html]ProCite
[http://www.procite.com/]
James' Pro Cite Guide [http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/doctoral/prociteguide.doc].
The guide includes (a) examples of how
to "Cite While You Write" using APA and (b) examples of
records/forms for different types of documents. The guide is
in
MS Word format and is designed to
supplement the ProCite User's Guide. In order to add citations to a
document, the reference first need to be in your ProCite database.
Please identify mistakes and areas for improvement. Information on
electronic sites is not current!
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