Week 3

Week Three
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. 10 useful functions/ search tips from the ECU library site, giving a brief explanation of each.
b. Who do you think might use a service such as the MEDline plus website and what do you think they might get from it?
3. Screen Shots
a. Journal Article- ‘Economic impact of global warming on businesses’
b. MEDline plus interactive tutorial
4. Reading 1 Summary- ‘Finding what you want on the web’
5. Reading 2 Summary- ‘Bare Bones Lesson 7: Basic Search Tips’

Lecture Notes-

Online Libraries now the library used frequently as apposed to the library which has books on the shelves.

We use online libraries instead of normal libraries as it is more convenient then to get out of the house to go to the library and also the online library journals are up to date.

Online databases are similar to online libraries as they both are up to date and imfromative.



Tutorial Summary-

Online libraries used as a better source of information then the web pages from google

University students use the online libraries as much as the library itself

10 Search Tips-

1. Use plus and minus keys. + and - will give searche outcomes that return with words that are appropriately included or excluded according to the plus and minus keys. This results in a more specific and reliable search.

2. Use quotiation marks in the search. This will produce search results that are exactly matched to what has been written in between the quotation marks.

3. Most important word comes first. If you are including several words in the search, make sure the main word is put first. This will help the search engine to bring you what you want.

4. Type in lower case. If you use capital letters in your searches, it will only return matches with capitals. Using lower case will search for both.

5. Truncation. If you want your search to be broadened, use variations in spelling. For example. Domination,Dominator etc.

6. Use a mixture of both key words and phrases. This will help you get the most specific results which are most relevant to your search needs.

7. The find command. Trying to find a word or phrase on a webpage can be difficult, but simply use the find command to take you to where you need to be.

8. Know your search engine. Find out how your search engine works and makes its matches. Failure to use + and - can most of the time cause a search engine to use its own settings.

9. Natural language - This is the easiest to use. It is used in web search tools, simply enter a full sentence and the engine will find it for you.

10. Menus - For the infrequent user of search engines. This is the easy way to find material by utilising the given menus to track the information you are looking for.

The service of interactive tutorials would be used by most people around the world as they need a wider and more broad understanding of the symptoms, prevention and causes of these conditions. This can be very helpful as it has enough information to inform the reader about if they might have the condition and what they should do instead of ignoring the symptoms.


Finding What You Want On The Web -

Bill Thompson talks about the stupidity of the search engines and its mess that you get when you type in a couple of words on google as an example. He also goes on the subject of the web being "dumb" and sais that "links dont carry meaning and until they do, we will be seeing this mess of links on search engines for a while" and that searching is just not 1 search engine but using more then 3 even to find the better information to link it in.

Bare bones search tips -

Deals with various ways of finding what you want when you use search engines such as using a + and - sign infront of words to force their inclusion. The site talks about using the link you found on the search engine and using the "find" search on the site to better enhance your findings.