1- follow link to "Internet Searching Tools: Subject Directories"
2- choose 1 Subj. dir. : Best information on the net
A unique feature to this site is a drop down menu of "Quick Links", which included 14 databases, which makes the home page less cluttered. Other resources were also listed on the home page, such as 'search by MAJOR', and the computer science link provide many different types of databases. Some examples were electronic journals, e-books, a specialty site 'cyber atlas' containing data & statistics info, which would be useful for many research projects and possibly even personal "decision making", (a very unique resource!) At least one link was 'broken', but a clik to the "Net Library" pulled up a nice page, similar to Cannell libr. The layout was well organized, and this page did include 'advanced' search options on the 2nd 'requested' search page. This site does allow 'boolean' and 'truncation'. and 3 search engines, two of which wwre new to me- 'hotbot', and 'altavista'.
There was not a "Search tips" or "advanced search" link on the home page but several entry portals to much larger 'search/topic' choices. for example the link to student resources was quite extensive, with a variety of topics like study related subjects (how to's
Great report, Larry.
ReplyDeleteYou did a thorough job exploring this resource. Thanks for the effort.