Using the Web :
2 Using the Web The web is a source for –
Catalogues and databases to find references to printed materials and libraries
Web only content
Library Catalogues :
3 Library Catalogues Copac
http://www.copac.ac.uk
UK academic libraries
WorldCat
http://worldcat.org
libraries world wide
Bibliographic Databases :
4 Bibliographic Databases BL Direct
http://direct.bl.uk
all subjects; last 5 years
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
all subjects Infotrieve - Article Finder
http://www4.infotrieve.com
science, technology & medicine; 1987-
PubMed (MEDLINE)
http://www.pubmed.org
medicine; 1951
Locating Books :
5 Locating Books Google Books
http://books.google.com
table of contents, index, full text samples
Electronic Journals - Full Text :
6 Electronic Journals - Full Text Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
Searching the Web :
7 Searching the Web Pinakes subject launchpad
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
all subjects
SCIRUS
http://www.scirus.com/
science, technology & medicine
Searching the Web :
8 Searching the Web Consider access
Free, open access
Priced, restricted
Consider retrieval
Each search engine only visits a limited sample of the web
Surface web - open to general search engines
Deep web - databases and large documents not visible to general search engines
Searching the Web :
9 Searching the Web Consider reliability
Research level content - originated through peer review, major publishers and large institutions
Public content - checks for reliability