Web Searching Resources
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The following is a list of sites that we might use or refer to during class. If you find this list useful, you are welcome to come back to it later. Keep in mind however, that the list may change from time to time as we discover new sites and/or revise the course. This list is not meant to be comprehensive or to imply recommendation of the companies or services.
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Scholarly & Scientific information
Blog searching
Discussions
News
Patents
People
- Pipl
- Professional networking sites: LinkedIn and Naymz
- Spokeo searches social networking sites
- Biomedexperts analyzes PubMed records to find people related by topic and by networks of co-authorship
- ResearcherID integrated with Web of Science and EndNote Web, allows you to create an online bibliography of your publications
- Authoratory database of contact information, professional interests, social connections and funding
- If you're looking for an expert on a topic, try searching for
prolific or highly cited authors in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science,etc.
Image search
Specialized Image repositories
Audio(Podcasts) & Video
Directories & repositories
Search tools that index the text on the page around the video
Tools that convert the audio to text and then index that text (with mixed results)
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Search engines
Enhance your searching
Compare Search Engines
Compare results
Compare features
Combine Results (metasearch)
Directories: lists of links
Repositories: content lives in the site
Mobile Search
Search sites that are customized for viewing on a phone or PDA:
Info about search engines you can use by text messaging:
Make your own custom search engine
Last Updated: 10/5/2012 2:19 PM