Product Description: Inspiring selection of quotes. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text aims to alert students and information practitioners to the breadth of information available in CD-ROM and online format and provide them with the skills to make optimum use of these sources. Its evaluative approach covers a range of electronic sources and corresponding search and retrieval techniques which should prove useful to anyone battling with the growing maze of electronic information sources available...read more

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)

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.

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: 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

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)

Intended for teachers and media specialists, discusses four search strategies--browse, hypertext, hierarchical and analytical--for electronic resources which can be passed onto students.

Product Description: ^I a work that provides such a comprehensive reassessment of Information Retrieval (IR) theory, with regards to the user-oriented model. ― Journal of the American Society for Information Science (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)

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).

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

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).

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