Embellished

Jane Devine

New Holland

Google isn't up to the task when it comes to serious research, and though your patrons and students have heard of the invisible, or deep Web, they have no idea how to tap into it. You need practical tools and strategies for teaching them about the Web sources and specialized databases they will never find using everyday search engines. This book will show you in simple, nontechnical terms how to integrate the invisible Web into teaching opportunities wherever they occur: in a one-on-one teaching moment at the reference desk, or in a formal course. Estimated at 500 times the size of the visible Web, the invisible Web and the search skills needed to plumb its depths should be a part of every information literacy and research skills course. With this book you get expert teaching tips and scripts for informal instruction, plus model activities and assignments for the classroom. Statistics and summaries of relevant research will help you combat myths like Searching is Easy, or Everything Important is Free. Read this book too, to find out how the best deep Web search tools, including Complete Planet, Closer Look, and the Librarian's Internet Index, are evolving and what it all means for your library's future electronic collection development plans.

Going Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching

Computers & Technology

Francine Egger-Sider

Networking & Cloud Computing

Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.

Most students faced with writing a research paper probably start at the same place Google. Here's a cutting-edge guide that will save your students from fruitless, random web searching. Arlene Quartiello, formerly an academic librarian who now teaches college English, and Jane Devine, coauthor of Going Beyond Google, provide up-to-date guidance for using traditional and online sources. Students will learn to select a topic, effectively find and evaluate the best information in both print and electronic formats, and produce accurate and complete citations based on current versions of important styles guides and web resources. Each chapter includes exercises that reinforce the instruction and guidance. A companion website accompanies this new edition to give readers hot links for all of the book's URLs, and supplementary materials including additional exercises and examples that help clarify how to apply the techniques. Written in an easy, breezy style and filled with real-world examples, illustrative diagrams, and screen shots, this is the ideal guide for anyone aspiring to write an excellent research paper on their own or following this text in a research skills or information literacy course.

The College Student's Research Companion: Finding, Evaluating, and Citing the Resources You Need to Succeed, Fifth Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Arlene Rodda Quaratiello

Social Sciences

ALA Neal-Schuman

The Invisible Web, also known as the Deep Web, is a huge repository of underutilized resources that can be richly rewarding to searchers who make the effort to find them. Since Jane Devine and Francine Egger-Sider explored the educational potentials of this realm in Going Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching, the information world has grown even more complex, with more participants, more content, more formats, and more means of access. Demonstrating why teaching the Invisible Web should be a requirement for information literacy education in the 21st century, here the authors expand on the teaching foundation provided in the first book and persuasively argue that the Invisible Web is still relevant not only to student research but also to everyday life. Intended for anyone who conducts research on the web, including students, teachers, information professionals, and general users, their bookDefines the characteristics of the Invisible Web, both technologically and cognitivelyProvides a literature review of students’ information-seeking habits, concentrating on recent researchSurveys the theory and practice of teaching the Invisible WebShows ways to transform students into better researchersHighlights teaching resources such as graphics, videos, and tutorialsOffers an assortment of tools, both public and proprietary, for trawling the Invisible WebLooks at the future of the Invisible Web, with thoughts on how changes in search technology will affect users, particularly students learning to conduct research

Going Beyond Google Again: Strategies for Using and Teaching the Invisible Web

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