Bill is right that Google will also find many of the same things that KIP will discover and I use both. But I use KIP first because Google and other general search engines will dig up many things that are irrelevant to my search (like people, streets, and towns named "cave") and waste my time, while those obvious false hits won't appear on KIP. KIP's searches are also powered by Google.
George ******************** George Veni, Ph.D. Executive Director National Cave and Karst Research Institute 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220-6215 USA Office: 575-887-5517 Mobile: 210-863-5919 Fax: 575-887-5523 [email protected] www.nckri.org -----Original Message----- From: Mixon Bill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 1:14 PM To: Cavers Texas Subject: [Texascavers] searching for info "In many and increasingly more cases, the entire publications are fully text searchable by the Portal." Or by Google: I think in those cases a Google search will also pick it up, and the Karst Information Portal copy will come up as a source. I'd try a Google search first, as it will also pick up other things. I think the KIP is great, especially for its efforts to scan and OCR things that had never been digitized, like all the old NSS News's and NSS bulletins. But some of what it provides is redundant; Google will find the abstracts of all those journal papers. But hopefully KIP's collections of more obscure caver literature will be more permanent than many other web sites turn out to be. If KIP has digitized or just archived the newsletter of the Bogalosa Grotto and the Bogalosa Grotto and its own web site disappear, we're still covered. (The NSS library should also keep its own copies of all internal organization newsletters that are available as PDFs. It really should be scanning them itself, but it's a monumental task, and if KIP has the resources, more power to them.) -- Mixon ---------------------------------------- If you can't say something nice, come and sit by me. ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: [email protected] AMCS: [email protected] or [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
