Internet Research Skills

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Internet Research Skills

• Lecturer Niall O Dochartaigh
• Dept. of Political Science and Sociology
• NUI, Galway

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The Internet Research Handbook

• Niall O Dochartaigh (2001) The Internet Research
  Handbook A Practical Guide for Students and
  Researchers in the Social Sciences
• Chapter five, The Open Web, is available as a PDF
  file on the Sage website.

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Understanding the Internet

• What is the internet ?
• No Central Control
• Why is it not on the internet?

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Searching for Books

• Worldcat
• Books in print
• Library catalogues - Libweb and COPAC
• Amazon.com
• Searching inside the Book

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Worldcat
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Searching inside the Book (www.amazon.com)
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Searching for Academic Articles

• Understanding the article databases
• Whats on them
• Content alerts

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Academic article databases

• OCLC Article First
• Web of Science
• ISIs Web of Knowledge
• JSTOR
• ScienceDirect
• Ulrichsweb
• Swetswise
• Blackwell Synergy

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