Product Description: This volume deals primarily with the experiences of users and current methodological trends in digital libraries. It provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the user orientation of digital libraries(evaluation, usefulness, interculturality, web design, relevance ranking, mobile terminals)...read more

Organized by topic and region, explains how to find statistical information about companies, markets, and industries on the Internet; how to organize and present statistics; and how to determine their authenticity. (view table of contents)

Product Description: New digital technologies, the Internet, and user expectations have changed the role of the catalogue in libraries considerably in recent years. This timely book takes into account developments that influence catalogue potential and patrons needs, such as competition from popular Web sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia...read more

Product Description: Teach students valuable information retrieval skills and build information literacy with this excellent guide and activity book. Along with a simplified explanation of Boolean logic and how it is used for online searching, it offers reproducible worksheets that lead students through decision-making and powerful strategic techniques of search process...read more

Provides readers with descriptions and an understanding of specific medical and medical-related online databases and Internet resources, covering subjects from cancer to neurological disorders

Product Description: This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a simple keyword search...read more

Product Description: Find the Information You Need! is designed for the person who suspects that Google and Facebook aren’t always giving them the best results for their specific information needs. Created for anyone who wants to understand how to select better information resources, deploy smarter search strategies, and evaluate results more effectively, Find the Information You Need! provides:concrete exercises demonstrating successful queries on a variety of topics;clear explanations of search techniques and when to use them;descriptions of the different types of information resources available including commercial databases, digital libraries, and open-access repositories; and helpful advice about evaluating and organizing search results...read more

Product Description: We live in an information-saturated environment and spend far too much time searching, surfing, skimming, contributing, and organizing the information in our lives. We spend too little time immersing ourselves in reliable high quality information...read more

Offering assistance through commercial online services, Internet, World-Wide Web, electronic bulletin boards, and National Institutes of Health Databases, a comprehensive guide to information on diseases and illnesses explains how to locate online medical journals and interpret articles. Original. (All Users).

Product Description: The growing amount of information provided via web-based information technologies forces the users of these technologies to stop seeking for information before having acquired all available information. This stopping decision is either made actively following clear guidelines or subconsciously based on the seeker’s intuition...read more

Product Description: Two of the most prolific and challenging authorities on the topic of competitive intelligence (CI) reflect on and respond to the changes in the field over the last decade. The authors point out that CI users have to change what they are doing, show why they are doing it, and provide ways of doing it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A guide to research on the Internet, this book aims to provide useful information for anyone who wants to broaden the range and scope of their research tools or increase their knowledge about what is available electronically.

To succeed as searchers, all librarians require both a basic idea of how databases are put together, and a repository of concepts and techniques to draw upon. With such essentials well in hand, the searcher can plunge into almost any database that comes along and master its intricacies (and idiosyncrasies) in relatively short order. Bell's conversational style, coupled with her Searcher's Toolbox, promises increased flexibility and adaptability. This book will prove a handy guide for librarians in every conceivable information environment and across all levels of experience.The ability to understand and navigate online environments and databases is fast becoming an essential skill for librarians. Now in a revised and updated edition, this book provides a handy guide for librarians in every conceivable information environment and across all levels of experience.

Product Description: This unique guide offers you a thorough understanding of multilingual information access (MLIA) and services and related concepts, such as database design, information retrieval, machine translation, and natural language processing...read more

Presenting an overview of types of information available on the Internet--including little-known sources of information and Internet links to other commercial databases--a guidebook offers efficient search techniques to make even the most unusual search successful. Original. (All Users).

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: In this edition, the author continues to track, in jargon-free language, the latest developments in the rapidly changing information retrieval industry. The book is divided into two sections and progresses from general principles to specific online hosts...read more

Product Description: Researchers are retiring conventional paper-and-pencil research methods and embracing an expanded array of online methodological options. In urban and planning studies, new digital tools, data accessibility, and online applications are changing how urban planning research is conducted...read more

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