Online Information Sources: PowerPoint Presentation 12-5-2012
-Getting background information . . . online reference resources and book
*Give foundation or grounding for a topic & refines searches
*Specialized references (encyclopedia, handbooks, directories, etc.) ; print & online reference books
-Sports Market Place Directory
* Can browse by category
Iona.edu – Homepage: Libraries
Research>Find Reference Sources> Home page are general references ie. Britannica
*An excellent place to start your research, Reference Universe searches the indexes and contents of all of Iona’s reference holdings, often returning full-text encyclopedia articles
Research>Find Books>Limit To>E Reference
-Getting recent information (online database and journals)
*Scholarly journals, magazine articles, newspaper articles, images, statistics, etc.
*Multidisciplinary: EBSCO, ProQuest, Sage Journals Online, Lexis-Nexis
Research>Find Articles>
-Internet?
* Business information, research new companies, non profits,etc.
Domain names in URLs – Key in searches, could these sites have a particular bias in their presentation of information
*TLD (Top level domain)
– .com(Commercial site) , .net(personal site), .org (non-profit organization) etc.
*Type Search Engines & Using more than one search engine is important (not a lot of overlapping)
-Key words specify your search results, phrase searching (use double quotes), and Google scholar
-Meta search engine: dogpile,mamma,zulla,grabball.com
-Directories: provide a collection of annotated web pages arranged in categories ie.ipl2, yahoo directory
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