Cheryl Knott

Find the Information You Need!

Resources and Techniques for Making Decisions, Solving Problems, and Answering Questions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This guide to the fundamentals of information discovery can be used as a textbook in undergraduate and graduate online searching courses and as a manual for anyone who wants to move beyond keyword searching on the web. Whether you need to make a decision, solve a problem, answer a question or write a research report, Find the Information You Need! can help by introducing you to the resources, techniques, and practices that professional information searchers use every day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781442262478
• ISBN-10: 1442262478
• Artikelnr.: 43918040

Autorenporträt

By Cheryl Knott

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Don't Google That, Do This Section I: Make It Work
Chapter 1: Magazines and Newspapers in General-Interest Databases Chapter
2: Research Riches Chapter 3: Is There an Opp for That? Chapter 4: Dazzle
Them with Statistics Chapter 5: Doing Good, Searching Well Chapter 6:
Here's to Your Health Section II: How and Why It Works Chapter 7: Make It
Work for You Chapter 8: The Elements of Search Chapter 9: A Map of the
Information World Chapter 10: Browsing and Searching Chapter 11: Evaluating
and Managing Search Results Chapter 12: Crowding out the Experts Appendix
1: Databases Accessible from State Libraries or other State Agencies
Appendix 2: Encyclopedias and Other Reference Tools Freely Accessible on
the Web Appendix 3: Freely Available Information Resources by Subject Index
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