Relevant Links
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Crawling
the Web. A guide to robots, spiders, and other shadowy denizens of
the Web by Jeff Prosise, published by PC Magazine in July 1996
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Internet 101: Boolean
Logic. This easy-to-understand tutorial by Creighton University in
Omaha simplifies Boolean Logic using animated diagrams.
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Finding
Information on the Internet: A Tutorial. More like a series of tutorials
by the University of California, Berkeley so you might want to bookmark
this site. There are detailed instructions for using the major search engines,
tables comparing which tools are best for what purpose, recommended search
sites, and more. Of special interest are the tutorials in "Going Beyond
General Web Searching" which include the ff:
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Subject Guides compiled by subject experts
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Searchable Databases and Specialized Search Engines on your subject
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Virtual Reference Libraries
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Locating Peers in Discussion Groups by subject
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Finding People's pages and e-addresses
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Grants -- tracking, researching, agencies
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Internet Detective.
This is an interactive tutorial and the best guide so far on evaluating
information quality in the Internet. A must for researchers, teacher, librarians,
trainers, students. Developed under the DESIRE Project funded by the European
Union.
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