Resources
Textbooks
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Guide to Online Searching,
2nd Edition. Libraries Unlimited.
- Berkman, R. (2005). The Skeptical Business Searcher. Medford, NJ:
Information Today.
- Chu, H. (2010). Information Representation and Retrieval in the
Digital Age. 2nd Edition. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.
- Devine, J. & Egger-Sider, F. (2009). Going Beyond Google: The
Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching. New York: Neal-Schuman
Publishers, Inc..
- Hock, R. (2010). The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A
Guide for the Serious Searcher. 3rd ed. Medford, NJ: Information Today,
Inc.
- Mann, T. (2005). Oxford Guide to Library Research (3rd ed.). New
York: Oxford University Press.
- Morville, P. & Callender, J. (2010). Search Patterns.
Sebastopol: O'Reilly.
- Sauers, M. P. (2009). Searching 2.0. New York: Neal-Schuman
Publishes, Inc..
- Walker, G., & Janes, J. (1999) Online Retrieval: A Dialogue
of Theory and Practice. Libraries Unlimited.
- Introduction
to Dialog for Information Professionals. (Traditionally called the
"Dialog Lab Workbook").
Required or supplementary readings from similar courses
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information professionals. Online, 34(1), 14-16.
- Affelt, A. (2011). Changing semantics and information
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- Badke, W. (2010). How stupid is Google making us? Online, 34(6),
51-53.
- Ballard, S., & Henry, M. (2006). Citation searching: New
players, new tools. The Searcher, 14(9), 24-33.
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Retrieved from http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/berrypicking.html
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and the Internet: Human, database, and domain factors. Journal of the
American Society for Information Science, 49(13), 1185-1205. Retrieved
from http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/articles/indexdlib.html
- Belkin, N. J. (2000). Helping people find what they don't know.
Communications of the ACM, 43(8), 58-61.
- Booth, A. (2008). Using evidence in practice: Unpacking your
literature search toolbox: On search styles and tactics. Health
Information and Libraries Journal, 25, 313-317.
- Borgman, C. L. (1996). Why are online catalogs still hard to use?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47(7):493-503.
- Braun, T., Wolfgang G., & Schubert, A. (2010). On sleeping
beauties, princes and other tales of citation distributions. Research
Evaluation, 19(3), 195-202.
- Chen, X. (2010). The declining value of subscription-based
abstracting and indexing services in the new knowledge dissemination
era. Serials Review, 36(2), 79-85.
- Choo, C.W., Detlor, B., & Turnbull, D. (2000). Information
seeking on the web: An integrated model of browsing and searching.
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- Collins, J. (2010). My summer on the content farm. The Awl, (4
Nov), http://www.theawl.com/2010/11/my-summer-on-the-content-farm
- Cromity, J. (2009). Value continuum and professional online
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- Drabenstott, K. M. (2004). Why I still teach online searching.
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 45(1), 75-80.
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searching on research topics: Characteristics of research tasks and
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- Falagas, M. E., Pitsouni, E. I., Malietzis, G. A., & Pappas,
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- Godfrey, K. (2008). A new world for virtual reference. Library Hi
Tech, 26(4).
- Haglund, L. & Olsson, P. (2008). The impact on university
libraries of changes in information behavior among academic
researchers: A multiple case study. The Journal of Academic
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43(9), 602-615.
- Hearst, M. & Karadi, C. (1997) Cat-a-cone: An interactive
interface for specifying searches and viewing retrieval results using a
large category hierarchy in the Proceedings of the 20th Annual
International ACM/SIGIR Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 1997. Online
Version
- Herman, S. (2007). SMS reference: Keeping up with your clients.
The Electronic Library, 25(4)
- Jacsó, P. (1999). Savvy searching starts with browsing. Online
& CD-ROM Review, 23(3), 169-172.
- Jacsó, P. (2004a). Citation-enhanced indexing/abstracting
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- Jacsó, P. (2004b). Query refinement by word proximity and
position. Online Information Review, 28(2), 158-161.
- Jacsó, P. (2005a). As we may search – Comparison of major
features of the web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar
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1537-1547.
- Jacsó, P. (2005b). Options for presenting search results: Part 1.
Online Information Review, 29(3), 311-319.
- Jacsó, P. (2005c). Options for presenting search results: Part 2.
Online Information Review, 29(4), 412-418.
- Jacso, P. (2008a). Amazon, Google Book Search, and Google
Scholar. Online, 31(1), 51-54.
- Jacso, P. (2008b). Google Scholar revisited. Online Information
Review, 32(1), 102-114.
- Jacsó, P. (2011). Google Scholar duped and deduped: The aura of
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- Jansen, B. J., Zhang, M., & Schultz, C. D. (2009). Brand and
its effect on user perception of search engine performance. Journal of
the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 60(8),
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- Johnson, P. E. (2003). Digital reference as an instructional
tool: Just in time and just enough. Searcher, 11(3): 31-33.
- Kansiger, A. (2003). After the research: Information
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- Kangiser, A. (2011). What ‘value-added deliverables’ means today.
Online, 35(1), 20-24.
- Korah, A., & Cassidy, E. D. (2010). Students and federated
searching: A survey of use and satisfaction. Reference and User
Services Quarterly, 49(4), 325-332.
- Lawlor, B. (2003). Abstracting and information services: Managing
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- Notess, G. R. (2009). Forget not the forums. Online, 33(2), 41-43.
- Notess, G. R. (2011). Content farming, quick creation and
declining information quality. Online, 35(3), 46-48.
- Novotny, E. (2004). I don’t think, I click: A protocol analysis
study of use of a library online catalog in the Internet Age. College
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- Ojala, M. (2003). When bad searches happen to good searchers.
Online, 27(1), 58-60.
- Othman, R., & Halim, N. S. (2004). Retrieval features for
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