Year 12 presentation: Tips for better researching

RESEARCH“True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but

what they mean; it is not memory but judgment .”~ James Russell Lowell

http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/skills/documents/ResearchProcess_A4_colour.pdf

Join• State Library of NSW • National Library of

Australia

Trove

• Google.com indexes 40 billion public web pages.

• 100+ billion static web pages are publicly-available. These pages can

easily be found by Google and other search engines

• 11+ billion static pages are hidden from the public. As private intranet

content, these are the corporate pages that are only open to

employees of specific companies.

• 450+ billion database-driven pages are completely invisible to

Google.

Beyond Google• Invisible (or Deep) Web:

o Databases:

• Jstor

• Expanded Academic

• Project Muse

• The Literary Encyclopedia

• Austlit n.b. Indigenous Literature

o E-books:

• Cambridge companions:

• Invisible web search engines

• Google Scholar

• Metasearch engines: o Yippy – n.b. Shakespeare

o Dogpile

• search for scholarly literature. • articles, theses, books, abstracts • from academic publishers, professional societies,

online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Metasearch Engines

Search beyond Google

Why Dogpile?

• Metasearch: Google, Yahoo, Yandex, etc

• Looks for relevance

• Records previous searches

Why Yippy?

• Metasearch: Searches several top search engines

• Combines results based on comparative ranking

• Best results go to the top

• ‘Clouds’, group similar results

• Yippy does not track or sell your personal information

Domain names.ac = academic

.au = Australia

.com = commercial

.edu = educational institution

.edu.au

.gov = government

.org = organisation eg Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and

Managers, Australia

.uk = UK

What is the invisible web?

• Search engines index less than 10%

• The rest is called the Invisible Web or the Deep Web

• Massive content hidden from search engines

Invisible (Deep) Web• Library databases:

o Austlit

o JSTOR

o Expanded Academic ASAP

o Project Muse

• E-books:o Cambridge Companions Online

• Invisible Web search engines:o Complete Planet

o ScienceResearch.com

• Scholarly journals, news magazines & newspapers

• All academic disciplines

• 25,152,618 articles as at 24/10/13

• All published between 1980 - 2013

AUSTLIT

Searching the Invisible Web

“One Search. Superior Science.”

• High quality results from the Deep Web

• Slower than Google because

• It searches several search engines, + collates and

ranks results

• For science and technology

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