A very good supplement to Google Scholar is Scirus, a free database from Elsevier, which I suspect they made as a prototype for their very expensive Scopus-- and as a way to promote it. http://www.scirus.com/ (disclosure: I'm on the Scirus Library Advisory Board)
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > stevertigo wrote: >> David Goodman wrote: >> >>> 1. The best role of a librarian is to teach other people how to do research, >>> >> >> Well, are they "librarians" or "teachers" in information science? >> > Why promote a false dichotomy? >>> ''How Wikipedia Works'' (http://howwikipediaworks.com/ the free online >>> version.) >>> >> >> Ah. Apparently only chapter 12 is "free." Does someone here have a >> copy they would like to share? Or maybe a torrent link? >> > The whole book is free under the GFDL. > > The only reason for keeping this thread going would be that the Monday > lull seems to have stretched to Thursday this week. To sum up a bit, I > was pushing for a broader definition of the part of the Web > complementary to what Google or other search engines find with ease: the > Deep Web includes webpage returns from online databases where the search > you run is unobvious, but is not limited to those pages. The division of > labour for exploring the Deep Web has to include more than webcrawlers, > by definition. It could include both "explorers" and "dredgers". > Explorers would be humans who carry out particularly arduous searches, > either on their own behalf or for others, either self-taught or tutored > in techniques and approaches that are "librarian-approved". They are > recognisable as generic "researchers" as found in other fields. The > other approach, which I'm calling dredger, is something like a collector > of materials for an as-yet unspecified project. Wikimedia Commons in > part of its operations is an example of dredging of this nature; I was > suggesting that the idea isn't limited in its scope to media. The thing > to add, as is apparent from the librarians' contributions to the thread, > is that the maps are not yet good enough for us to withdraw the term > "explorer", and "here be dragons" still applies. > > Charles > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
