Product Description: Using an expert interview approach to K-12 research, this book shares ideas from professional researchers on the improvement of teacher awareness of critical information skills and the importance of information fluency. How educators and librarians can intrude respectfully when research becomes a largely self-serving pursuit, what the developmental issues are in teaching searching, and what a best practice looks like are discused...read more

Provides information on ways to identify and evaluate online business information sources and finding company and industry data on the Internet.

A group of competitive intelligence experts discusses such topics as resources, models, and analytical techniques to help businesses stay ahead of the competition.

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Product Description: The impact of the Internet on the writing profession is unprecedented, even revolutionary. Wired writers of the 21st century use the Internet to do research, to collaborate, to reach out to readers, and even to publish and sell their work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As the ubiquity of the Internet has fostered more interest in business outside the United States, the need for companies to see their market and competitive environment in a global perspective has forced more businesses to think internationally...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using an expert interview approach to primary research, this book shares secrets from professional researchers for integrating online skills with interviews, hands-on public records research, and documents and printed materials not available on the Internet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Merger and acquisition activity is breaking records—there are more transactions every year and the size of the transactions is constantly going up as well. However, a merger, acquisition, or divestiture deal is only as good as the information on which it is based...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ten of the world’s leading news researchers share their hard-earned tips, techniques, and strategies for using the Internet and online services to get the scoop, check the facts, and nail the story. Interviews with these researchers probe the evolving structure of the newsroom, showcase various strategies for organizing and sharing information, and provide insights into the changing nature of modern news research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ten of the world’s leading online medical researchers share tips and techniques on using the Internet to research diseases, treatments, and related information. This book explains how to recognize the warning signs of medical quacks, scams, and sales pitches; how to track down the credentials of a “medical expert”; and which sources remain the best for researching clinical medicine...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Interviews with financial researchers demonstrate expert search strategies and describe the best online resources. (view table of contents)

An updated reference on the art of online research explains how to select a search engine, request information from online libraries and archives, explore governmental cyber-bureaucracy, verify information, deal with copyright issues, and cite online references properly. Original. (Beginner) (view table of contents)

Product Description: Presented by a symposium of experts in the field, here is detailed information on how to approach, analyze, and carry through a legal research project. This book skips the rudimentary introduction to research on the Web and focuses on topics of practical concern to practicing lawyers and legal research professionals...read more

Product Description: Reveals the insights, anecdotes, tips, techniques, and case studies of 35 of the world’s top Internet hunters and gatherers. These super net searchers explain how to find valuable information on the Internet, including where the Internet shines as a research tool, distinguishing cyber-gems from cyber-junk, and how to avoid “Internet Overload...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides information for searching every major online service, including power searching tools, command charts, shortcuts, troubleshooting guides, and 'cheat sheets' (view table of contents)

Product Description: How do you judge the accuracy, reliability and completeness of an electronic or online database? Can quality be designed in? In the early 1990s, several initiatives were launched, including the influential SCOUG (Southern California Online Users Group) database rating scale...read more

Product Description: Learn the secret strategies and planning techniques of the industry’s top searchers in the fields of business, law, finance, communications, and the humanities. Learn how skilled searchers choose databases on professional online services, plan search strategies, cope with too many or too few hits, and know when the search is done...read more