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Research >> Training on Using New Technologies (ICTs)
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Training on Using New Technologies (ICTs): Using the Internet for Research
CONTENTS:
World Movement for Democracy 4th Assembly, Istanbul, Turkey April 4, 2006 - 10:15 am to 1:15 pm Instructor: Allen Overland, Manager, Democracy Resource Center allen@ned.org
B. Reference Tools for Finding Information C. Everything You Wanted to Know About Google and MORE! D. What's a Wikipedia and How Can it Help Me with My Research? A. The Basics of Searching
http://www.ned.org/research/demresources/intro.html Research Strategy http://www.ned.org/research/demresources/tutorial-strategy.html Evaluating Resources http://www.ned.org/research/demresources/tutorial-evaluate.html Research Toolbox http://www.ned.org/research/demresources/tutorial-toolbox.html B. Reference Tools for Finding Information.
1-click answers http://answers.com Bartleby.com: Great Books Online http://www.bartleby.com/ Refdesk.com http://www.refdesk.com/ Government, Politics, and Foreign Countries
http://nationmaster.com/ Foreign Government Resources on the Web (searchable by place or topics) http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html Language Tools
(2000 links, translation, dictionaries, etc) http://www.ilovelanguages.com/ Merriam Webster OnLine (with audio pronunciation) http://www.merriam-webster.com/ Voice of America Name Pronunciation Guide (with audio) http://names.voa.gov/index.cfm FreeDictionary (with synonyms, quotations, etc) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ One Look Reverse Dictionary (you provide idea, it finds related words) http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml Acronym Finder (example-- or ROTFLMAO) http://www.acronymfinder.com/ Free Online Translation Services (many more languages than Altavista or Google translators) http://www.word2word.com/free.html News & Public Opinion
(searching 22,155 news sources every 5 minutes) http://www.newsnow.co.uk/ NewsNow LiveFeed (see the latest here by using reload/refresh) http://www.newsnow.co.uk/livefeed/ Newspapers.com Directory http://www.newspapers.com/ WOW!--Full Text AND Free?!! (An Internet Hotlist on Finding Free Full Text Articles and Books) http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Filamentality/fulltex.html World Wide Web Archive
(see web pages as they used to be) http://www.archive.org/ C. Everything You Wanted to Know About Google and MORE!
http://google.com Google search history http://www.google.com/searchhistory/ Google Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search
--language, format, domain limits --link searches and "similar" searches Google Preferences http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en
An Empirical Analysis of Google Safesearch http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/google-safesearch/ Google Alert Service (when a new page is found containing your words, you'll be notified!) http://www.google.com/alerts Advanced Search Tips (Building a Better Query) http://www.google.com/tour/services/query.html Google Suggest http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en Google Toolbar http://toolbar.google.com/ Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ (scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.)
http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html Google Scholar Help http://scholar.google.com/scholar/help.html Google Advanced Scholar Search (easier!) http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search Google Scholar Advanced Scholar Search Tips http://scholar.google.com/scholar/refinesearch.html Google Book Search (full-text books from publishers or libraries) http://books.google.com/
http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search? Frequently Asked Questions http://print.google.com/googleprint/help.html The Library Project http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, The New York Public Library, and Oxford University to scan all or portions of their collections and make those texts searchable on Google. Open WorldCat pilot (including library holdings in Google results) http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/pilot/default.htm
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/tryit/default.htm Google Labs (what's new at Google) http://labs.google.com/ Google News (4,500 sources for U.S. news) http://news.google.com/ No list of sources offered, but sources can be searched by title (New York Times, etc)
http://news.google.com/advanced_news_search?hl=en&edition=us Can limit by state or country name, not city --Google Alerts http://www.google.com/alerts/ Up to 10 per e-mail address, you choose frequency. e-mail confirmation required. --Customizing your page (new!) http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/about_customized_news.html Uses cookies, so only on one workstation, but can e-mail configuration of customized page -- Google News frequently asked questions http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/about_google_news.html --International versions (see list at bottom of page) http://news.google.com/ Can add material from these to your customized pages too. --plain text version http://news.google.com/news?ned=tus Google Blog Search http://google.com/blogsearch debuted September 14, only searches back to June, 2005
http://google.com/blogsearch/advanced_blog_search --Blogger.com interface (Google owns blogger.com free blog hosting service) http://search.blogger.com/ --Google's own blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ Google Web Directory http://directory.google.com/ "when you only want to see sites that have been evaluated by an editor" offers categories as well as links. World section for pages in other languages http://www.google.com/Top/World/ Google Image Search http://images.google.com/
http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en Can limit by size, color versus B&W, filetype, or from particular domain (doughnut from http://krispykreme.com for example) Google Maps and Satellite images (includes hybrid views) http://maps.google.com/
http://earth.google.com/katrina.html Google Video search (download required) http://video.google.com/ about Google Video searching http://video.google.com/video_about.html D. What's a Wikipedia and How Can it Help Me with My Research?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory WikiGettingStarted FAQ http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiGettingStartedFaq 7 Things You Should Know About Wikis http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7004.pdf Wikis described in plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000644.html How Wikis Work http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wiki.htm Wikipedia authority questions
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid's All Right (And So's the Old Man) http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/mar06/berinstein.shtml Quality of other sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Replies_to_common_objections#Quality_of_other_sources Yahoo! Mindset searching http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/ Popular Wikis
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page wikiHOW http://wiki.ehow.com/Main-Page wikiQuote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page UnCyclopedia http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page wikibooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page Placeopedia http://www.placeopedia.com/ Starting Your Own Wiki
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ChoosingaWiki Wiki Software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software Wiki Engines http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines Wiki Engines (Google Directory) http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Groupware/Wiki/Wiki_Engines/ PBWiki http://pbwiki.com/ | |
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