Harnessing the power of Google : what every researcher should know
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Mastering Internet research skills is a must for today's information professionals and LIS students, as well as for educators and all high school and college students. But without specific instruction in how to conduct online research, people are destined to waste time in their Internet queries or to come up emptyhanded when the information they're seeking is, in fact, available. Harnessing the Power of Google: What Every Researcher Should Know offers simple strategies that streamline research and improve anyone's search results. It will specifically benefit information professionals, students, and academic researchers in disciplines like international studies, political science, and statistical research. Illustrated with helpful screen shots, this handbook will be an often-consulted desk reference and can serve as a workshop guide or supplementary reading in courses on online research skills.
The book starts with a review of general guidelines for searching that covers topics like the difference between primary and secondary sources, determining authority, citing sources, indexing, and ranking before addressing Google's power-searching features, such as the ability to search by top-level Internet domain or file type. The book describes the history of information access over the past century, culminating in today's digital information archives and how Google now augments—not replaces—what libraries provide. The three Google interfaces that together comprise a powerful toolkit are covered in detail: Google Web for finding primary source materials; Google Scholar for full text searching of scholarly, peer-reviewed material; and Google Books for searching the full text of a very high percentage of books.
This informative and practical book teaches how to get better and faster results from Internet searches and methods for maximizing the potential of the world's most popular search engine.
Mastering Internet research skills is a must for today's information professionals and LIS students, as well as for educators and all high school and college students. But without specific instruction in how to conduct online research, people are destined to waste time in their Internet queries or to come up emptyhanded when the information they're seeking is, in fact, available. Harnessing the Power of Google: What Every Researcher Should Know offers simple strategies that streamline research and improve anyone's search results. It will specifically benefit information professionals, students, and academic researchers in disciplines like international studies, political science, and statistical research. Illustrated with helpful screen shots, this handbook will be an often-consulted desk reference and can serve as a workshop guide or supplementary reading in courses on online research skills.
The book starts with a review of general guidelines for searching that covers topics like the difference between primary and secondary sources, determining authority, citing sources, indexing, and ranking before addressing Google's power-searching features, such as the ability to search by top-level Internet domain or file type. The book describes the history of information access over the past century, culminating in today's digital information archives and how Google now augments—not replaces—what libraries provide. The three Google interfaces that together comprise a powerful toolkit are covered in detail: Google Web for finding primary source materials; Google Scholar for full text searching of scholarly, peer-reviewed material; and Google Books for searching the full text of a very high percentage of books.
- Written by an active reference technology librarian with three decades of experience, and who helps undergraduate and graduate students in areas such as public policy, international studies, statistics, and government information on a daily basis
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Brown (Univ. of Denver) offers a 130-page book that suggests a compromise in the library vs. Google debate. The focus is to "assist students, researchers, teachers, professors and librarians in finding primary and secondary sources using Google." Though this is a very broad target audience, the author purposefully limits the scope of the book to the "three Googles": Google Web, Google Books, and Google Scholar. He gives both basic and "power" search tips and covers evaluating and citing content found on the web. The author gives an in-depth analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the "three Googles." Throughout the book, these Google tools are compared to similar library resources, with the conclusion that Google and library resources augment and complement each other. Readers will find the overview of the content Google Scholar and Google Books contain as opposed to the content available in library resources very useful. A gamut of information is interspersed among the search tips, from the history of journal indexing, tips for library instruction, and digitization woes to how to search by file type. This book will be of great use to students in undergraduate information literacy courses. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. --Amanda Hollister, SUNY Broome Community College
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Brown, C. C. (2017). Harnessing the power of Google: what every researcher should know . Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brown, Christopher C., 1953-. 2017. Harnessing the Power of Google: What Every Researcher Should Know. Santa Barbara, California: Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brown, Christopher C., 1953-. Harnessing the Power of Google: What Every Researcher Should Know Santa Barbara, California: Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Brown, C. C. (2017). Harnessing the power of google: what every researcher should know. Santa Barbara, California: Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Brown, Christopher C. Harnessing the Power of Google: What Every Researcher Should Know Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017.
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