WISER Social Sciences Google and beyond Penny Schenk
WISER Social Sciences: Google and beyond Penny Schenk Angela Carritt Bodleian Law Library
Overview • Search engines – – The Google family Clusty Searching forums using Omgili Searching blogs and feeds using Technorati and Google blog search • Tips for evaluating web resources • Citing web resources
URLs • Google @ http: //www. google. co. uk/intl/en/options/ • Clusty @ http: //clusty. com/ • Omgili @ http: //www. omgili. com/ • Technorati @ http: //technorati. com/
Gives you greater control over your search terms Useful for Countries, organisations, concepts Specify that terms mu appear in title, links to Limit your search to a particular web site or group of web sites e. g. • . ac. uk to search UK University web sites • . edu for US University web sites. • gov. uk for UK government website • . uk for UK websites generally
Advanced search gives you more control over your search terms Scholar preferences • Library links – allows Google to link to full text within Oxford subscriptions • Bibliographic manager – allows you to set defaults for exporting to Endnote, Ref. Works etc
Check Oxford atabases or full text ersion Link to abstract or full text Find other “versions” in the group e. g. related pre print, article, conference paper. Times this item (or related items in the same “group”) have been cited [citation] – Google hasn’t been able to locate full text. However, full text may be available in one of Oxford’s subscription databases. To check choose “Oxford Full Text”
Google books • What does Google books search? – The full text of books • Which books? – Library collections digitised by Google – Book submitted by publishers and authors • What do you get? – – Full text – if the book is out of copyright / Google has permission Preview – a few relevant pages Snippets – v small amounts of relevant text Bibliographic details • What if I want to read the whole thing and its not available? – Google provides links to find it in a local library / buy it online!
Google Blog Search • Choose more >> from Google home page • See what bloggers are saying on a topic • Advanced options allow you to choose specific authors, dates, sites etc.
advanced options search for words contained in posts restrict by words in blog title restrict by site restrict by blogger restrict by date range restrict by language
Date options available on results page
alerts based on blog search Several options available for receiving ongoing updates when search terms are matched in blogs – email, gadget on Google homepage, subscription in feed reader
Google Image Search • Available on Google home page • Can choose file format, size of image, content i. e. faces • Can narrow search to a particular site
Restricted to grayscale, containing faces
Clusty • Sorts results into related “clusters” • Useful for zeroing in on what you were looking for and ignoring irrelevant results • Can view results by type of domain, i. e. . com, . edu, . org
sub-categories on left
View results sorted by a specific sub-topic
results sorted by domain suffixes
Omgili • Good for sampling general online discussion of a topic • Can generate graphs of what’s being talked about, gauge popularity over time
search a particular forum
advanced search options
Results from chosen forum
Technorati • • Full-featured blog searching Popular and recent searches, Top Blogs See which blogs link to a particular site Search by blog post tags
advanced blog search
See what bloggers say about a site
Evaluating web resources
How reliable is the web page you are looking at? …how much does it matter? …don’t get caught out.
How up to date is it? • Last updated statement • Last event mentioned? • Last article cited? Who’s linking to it? Are key web sites? Is it on Intute / other portals that you trust? Is it mentioned in key research guides? Could it be a hoax? Check Who wrote it? (person / organisation) Why did they write it? Do they belong to an organisation? Look at the URL of the web page • Do they belong to an organisation you trust? • University (. ac. uk, . edu) • Government (. gov) • Pressure group (biased? Reputable/Alarmist? ) • BBC? How knowledgeable are they? (check their facts against what you know) Who are they? (If its really important do a search on their name) • Library catalogue • Indexing and abstracting service • Google
Citing electronic resources …some general tips and examples …some specific examples using Harvard and Oscola …be sure to check the style guide suggested by your department …even if you are using Harvard
Make sure you give enough information for the reader to find the resource Giving the URL is not enough…the web page may be moved or deleted
Citing online journals • If the online version is exactly the same as the print version (including pagination) cite the print version • Useful for databases carrying scanned versions of print journals • If not, cite in the same way as a print journal but add the name of the database and/or URL
Citing web pages: general • • Author (personal or corporate) Year published / last updated (if available) Document / page title (if available) Title of the complete work/website or type of document • URL • Date you accessed it
BBC 2007 Musharraf vows polls in February (BBC News) Available at http: //news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7084839. stm [Accessed 8 November 2007]
Wikipedia, last updated 8 Nov 2007 Pervez Musharraf (Wikipedia) Available at http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf [Accessed 9 Nov 2007]
Musharraf, P 2005 President's address at international seminar on global terrorism (Presidential Speeches on President of Pakistan web site). Available at http: //www. presidentofpakistan. gov. pk/Files. Speeches/Policy/830200511101 3 PMPresidents%20 address[1]. pdf [Accessed 9 Novembr 2007]
How do you cite a quotation if there are no page or paragraph numbers? According to APA • Cite the heading and the number of the paragraph following it to direct the reader to the location of the material • e. g. Beutler, 2000, Conclusion section, para. 1
Two examples Harvard Author, Initials. , Year (given on site or if not available accessed date). Title of document or page. [type of medium]. [Online] Website Address Locating details (eg. Breadcrumb) [Accessed date] Oscola Author, title, type of document (if relevant), date of issue (if available), web address and date of access (if the document / website subject to change)
Harvard BBC 2007 Musharraf vows polls in February (BBC News) [online] http: //news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7084839. stm [Accessed 8 November 2007] Oscola BBC ’Mushaffaf vows polls in February’ (BBC News) 8 November 2007 http: //news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7084839. stm accessed 8 November 2007
Harvard Wikipedia, last updated 8 Nov 2007 Pervez Musharraf (Wikipedia) [online] http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf [Accessed 9 Nov 2007] Oscola Wikipedia ‘Pervez Musharraf’ (Wikipedia) 8 November 2007 http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf accessed 9 Nov 2007
Harvard Musharraf, P 2005 President's address at international seminar on global terrorism (Presidential Speeches on President of Pakistan web site). [online] http: //www. presidentofpakistan. gov. pk/Files. Speeches/Policy/830200511101 3 PMPresidents%20 address[1]. pdf [Accessed 9 November 2007] Oscola Pervez Musharraf ‘President's address at international seminar on global terrorism’ (Presidential Speeches on President of Pakistan web site) http: //www. presidentofpakistan. gov. pk/Files. Speeches/Policy/830200511101 3 PMPresidents%20 address[1]. pdf accessed 8 November 2007
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