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Some of the issues with
using internet resources, library resources, some
techniques and things I want to show you and some services that you may or may not know
about. Your survey, you guys were right on. I mean
we have a lot of people who are aware of some of the big resources
but really conveying that to your students, some techniques
for better searching. Some things, even Katie reminded me
of some things to make your life a little bit easier
like, whats called permalinks. I will go through some of that
and show you ways to link to articles. How to
get... - Called what? - Permalinks. Perma. Yes.
I will show you. It is hard to figure out. But once it is in context you will get it a little bit better.
Lets see. I want to start with something fun. The only one I could find had Russian
subtitles, so I am going to go with it.
If anyone hasn't seen this, I don't like to make fun
of students, but one of the things that when I talk to them about
searching and trying to find their resources. Talk to them in a way
that you have to give it some patience.
You have to do some thinking. It is not all magically going to happen
for you very quickly. Even though the searching
part does happen very quickly, there is still a level of frustration
that we see at the library. I can't find anything, is my favorite.
Like, you can't find anything! Nothing! There is nothing available
in your area! So, right.
I just want to show...and it's not the best quality video, but
you will get the point here.
Ok...
Now, I use that just as a way to talk to students about
being somewhat patient with the search they are trying to do
and the things they are trying to convey. And with our building
quite honestly and wireless, and all the things. I try to
show them, one when they come to our building now
they actually take up 3 IPs, meaning the wireless zone.
We are saturated. Three o'clock in the afternoon, you can't get connected
because they have a laptop, a phone, and they are going
we can't get connected yesterday. So, talking to them a little bit about
patience. I am not trying to bash the students but this is always a little bit fun. They find
it very humorous as well. The one thing that I want to start with since I am
a librarian is the library and making sure
that you are aware of the some of the wonderful things we have
for you. A lot of you said I use the
catalog. I can find my books. I use OhioLINK,
underscanning the consortium, the state consortium. But, conveying that to students
is making sure that they know.
Savvy ones will figure that out, especially when they don't want to buy the textbook.
They are going to try to find the textbook somewhere else. You can search
the entire state, right. So, we
went through that and on your surveys you all did remarkably much higher then in the
past. So, that is really good. That's really great.
So, the thing that I want to talk about really is an area over here.
Some of you said you have used them but, not everybody.
So, the library we have, really, the gravy train
of databases. It is incredibly
overwhelming for students because there are so many
databases that are based on subject area. So,
for Marketing, for German, everyone has sort of their own
area. This is the full alphabetical list. I am not sure even why we even keep it up
here because it is so intimidating.
- We use it Lisa. - Librarians use it, quite honestly. But, it
really isn't for students because it's like
yesterday's list. You get oh my god where do I start. What do I look
for. The things that we know is that when students are coming in or
asking questions online for help, it starts around the
subject. The frame of the question is I'm in
this class, or I am a
classics major, or I am this. So, we are framing our information
the way they are searching, by subject. We have this product
that we are
ok with. Not that we are completely happy with it,
in my opinion. But it is working. I want to make sure you are aware of
that. So, if you were to look. You could just go into that
research by subject. There is a guide
of resources for every subject.
If you want one for your course,
we will put one together, specifically for your course.
We know the level of frustration is so
high with trying to find it and then they have to try and remember
the name of the product and they call it wrong. We don't want them to know that. That is again
it's one of those things. They don't need to know that one comes from EBSCO and that one comes from
Sage or the product names. The way I go to that
was if you are at the library hompage, lib.muohio.edu,
we will change our domain eventually but we are holding out.
Under research, subject and course guides.
Subject and course guides.
If you haven't looked through these there is
just an amazing amount of information.
It is not just subject in the sense by division,
by course. It could be on digital images.
Right, It's a subject. We can help you find...
It's not just library resources. We can put web based resources there as well
So, I see everyone looking for their area,
which is great. I am going to show one.
This is American Studies and
it's very plain. It shows
Jenny Presnell, who is the librarian for that area. That is your other biggest
resource. There is a librarian on staff that is
assigned to every department.
Regional, Oxford campus, there is somebody
for your department. The one thing that you could see
even on the American Studies is course guides. I just wanted to show you because there is
a lot of examples there.
For different classes, we will create a create a
guide. How to find the article. These are the books.
This is where you go for different things. So, Peggy
Shaffer, we were hoping. Now, it gets a little more
complicated. There is a lot of resources on this page but,
company and industry information, scholarly and
trade journals. These are the places I want them to go
and use.
The other one we have done is...
American Studies 301.
Here is one here that
we were helping students with digital story telling, digital stories.
Where do I find all the resources? How do I get the guide to use
iMovie? Think about that whole
notion of book marking, saving, telling them a path in
which to go through this rich resources, you don't have to do that.
You could email your librarian or talk to somebody, have a
meeting and say this is the assignment. This is what I need them to do.
What would be the best path for them to take? How can we create
some sort of course guide that is going to allow them to do that.
Ok? Again, it is not just
things that we own, sponsor.
We will put in different websites
that we know of to be
reputable, have good content. Things we want to
share. That you are fine with them using because
one of the things we are trying to help faculty move away from
is that recipe assignment.
A cup, a cup, a cup. Two articles,
two books, two websites, right.
I know you are trying and students take that so literally. They are very concerned.
Well I can't use this because it is
not a book. Well it is a book, if it is an electronic book. I can't use the internet
for this. I know it's amazing.
We could probably spiel all day on just this
topic. - Yep. - We have faculty that will have assignments that they
do it. I want them to physically touch the journals.
I am not joking.
I understand that and there is a point for that.
That they would actually browse through it. We can help for that. But, you want to make sure we own it.
That is one that has happened. We don't own that.
So, make sure. Go ahead Deb. - I remember in Blackboard we had this,
Susan set up the number of,
he did bases that we use, like library quick links or something like that. - Yes.
- set under that banner. Does Niihka facilitate that? - It doesn't does it. But, that's
what this can do. You can just take the URL
and then link that right there. Create your own
tab. Research resources for this course.
Ok? That is something that when
there is hands on time, if you are interested, there are four
librarians here we will get you to the person. They are on staff. If you want to talk to
somebody about it. I was talking to... John Bailer was hear
all day yesterday. He is creating a new course on data visualization.
We have a numeric data person. He met with him and they already started yesterday.
afternoon. I need these kinds of resources and I want them
to be able to see this. You do not have time to maintain another site.
We can put that all together for you.
Ok? Alright.
So, the other thing I wanted to show on the
library website was...there were a couple things here.
So, I know a lot of you listed, I am
just going to go to the database that I think most everyone sees.
Academic Search Complete
brought to you by
a company called EBSCO. That is what happens. Students will say I need EBSCO.
Well again that is our provider for this database. This is
for almost every course, one of the places that we
recommend students just learn. It is called Academic Search
Complete. - How did you get to that? - I went
went as what Andy said. I went to the alphabetical list.
But, on almost every search guide it's listed. So, I
clicked on Databases A-Z. Then I
went to A. It's called Academic Search Complete.
Why do
we love this database so much? - It's broad.
- Whats that? - It's such easy query tools. - It is. The search
is pretty good. It has a high percentage of full-text.
Right. That is one of the things that I talk to students.
I am not trying to labor them, like what it was like in the old days
a lot. To understand you don't have go get a photocopy
and find the journal any longer. It's all
right here. So, the way you search and the way your retrieve
is mashed together. Academic Search Complete
we feel sort of as a group
is really the one that services us the best
for our students. It's a general most
general index to periodicals. If you are looking at it
it's over nine thousand scholarly journals. Now,
that is not to say, there are other ones that are specific.
Gender Watch, Artful,
things that are specific for a major,
a discipline. One of the things I like to do is
sometimes have students compare the information they would find from one
database to another. What do you get if you
search for information between these two databases.
The publishers are different, the content is different.
Ok. So, if you are in
Academic Search Complete and a lot of you already listed
that you use this on your survey, so I don't want to go through
too too much. If you are searching again it does have
incredible features, like I want full-text only.
We know that right up front. I just want the best
article that is already available. The best article might not be
available full-text but you can have that choice right from the
get go. I need it scholarly and talking students
about that concept
right here is what kind of magazine, Mike?
- I use this frequently but I usually get to it with Google Scholar.
- Oh, ok. - That is what I tell my students to use.
- Ok. - Could you tell me when would I go there first
or when would I go there without having
gone through Google Scholar? - Well one of the things, Google Scholar is phenomenal. We are going to look
at some of the things through there. In my opinion, when you enter through the library,
one if they ever had an authentication issue,
sometimes when you go in through Google Scholar it will say link to PDF
or available on...You know what I am going to show you. It is going to give you some
extra information saying hey that article was available. But, if you didn't enter through
the library you are not going to get it. - Well you have to go into
settings. Right. - Well no. You have to go in through a proxy server and other things
but you don't have to do that if you enter right through this database.
If you come in our house, it's like we
give you access to everything. It's a really simple way to say something
technological. It is a better way. I know that sounds silly
to say. But, that is what students want to know. What is the most
efficient way. How do you search?
I always try to tell them I'm a librarian. I enjoy the search.
I like that. I don't want you to be me.
I like that but I want them to be
efficient and I want them to feel rewarded, like I did it right. But,
they think like I have some secret. You have secret trade librarian things.
No, I enter in the database the same way you do and I
am going to show you some of the best techniques. But again, I am more thrilled
than they might be. So, understanding
and showing students students this...
So, I did a very basic search, nothing fancy.
I have been helping Liz Wilson with her course on
marriage and women's studies class for a long time.
I have learned a lot of things about wedding customs
and different things. So, I did a basic search on berkas
As you can see right away, full-text.
Not full-text, find it. There is a possibility that we could
have this or someone else could have it. But, I did not select full text.
You can resort these things, refine them.
Right on the side, right away because it's showing students there are
723, but if I say I really just want the full-text
it brings it down to 564,
which is still pretty good. Right? We are talking, it has
a good chunk of available research articles.
- That last one had a
foreign languages as the third one? Is that an option. - Yes,
languages are an option. You can say I want it in french or I don't want
anything but english. Kate? - Even though you are not seeing
the whole text attached, that just means we are not getting it via EBSCO.
Nine times out of ten it is going to be full text and in one of our
databases. So, that find it button is.. - Right, it does save you.
- One of the things that I always struggle with or worry about is, how do you
know, I never feel that I am scouring
all that is out there. - Everything, right? When you look at
and that is one of things you want to look for is. This is the blanket. The
biggest one we have. But, it does not exclude looking at one just in your
field as well because they may not... We could get into
a four day conversation about publishers but we won't.
But, they don't always share and
send their content over to other providers.
But, you are right. I know we can look at that and I think there are
to me, there are three avenues that I search. The general index,
the index in my field, which is library
information science, and then Google and Google Scholar. It's where
I feel the best that I have covered, you know that pie chart.
I got 75% percent I feel. There are other things,
open source issues, you know, lots of other things.
We will go through some of the those during the... Ok Andy go ahead. - You can
never know that you found everything. But, you try as many things
as you can iterative process. You try something. You look at your results and say
hey that is a subject heading I wouldn't have though of to use this. But, you find the perfect thing
and you see it has three subjects heading. Then you try searching on those three subject headings in different combinations
and putting them together. It is an iterative process. I always tell students and faculty and everybody
there is no such thing as a perfect first search. There is not way you are going to put the right thing in the first time
and get everything. It is a process
and you never know. Sometimes it has to be old fashioned citation mining.
You flip to the back and see what they cited. It is a process
just made easier by the tools but not.
It is still as it always was hit and miss. - It's a
process that you are going to formulate your question, your query, and that
synthesizing, reviewing, analyzing everything you have.
Somehow has now happened simultaneously. There use to be
sort of a set schedule of how. I will start my search
and get my things. Then I synthesis or think and analyze.
That is all happening at the same time. In Google Scholar I love the citations,
where it links and shows you. We will go through you. There is another questions. I thought I saw.
Here it is. Sorry. - When searching I
get a lot of book reviews. So, when I click on the book reader thing that is suppose to
eliminate them? - No that selects them. - So, how do you eliminate them?
- In this database?
- Sure, in general or in this database or whatever.
- Well, one of the things you are going to pick is you just put scholarly journals. But, you
you are going to get... - You still are going to get book reviews. I can show him later. It's a
thing when you are selecting the type and...
- Ok, the question was JSTOR. This is again
another product. When I talk to students this is like talking about
different brands of different databases. JSTOR is the journal of
storage in a sense. It is an
enormous research back
sort of database of journals that have been digitized.
It is kind of funny because we will have
volumes 1-10 are available in JSTOR. Then we have
10-20 in print and then
20 starting in 2011 is now available through a database.
It is horrible. It is horrible in a sense that it's
not organized in such a way. But, JSTOR is wonderful because it will
allows for us to have...backwards...to go back
historically to journals and get them full text.
It does not have the most current. It is not always
the up to date. If you were doing something historical JSTOR is a great place
to do it. Ok, the thing I wanted to show. So, here
is this great article and Katie said this is soemthing
that happens with her faculty a lot. They a want to link directly
to this article. Right. I want to be able to send this
article to my students. As Glen was showing yesterday, look at the size of
that URL because in the URL it has the search strategy,
the database, and there are a lot of things in there. There is
this little link over here called permalink.
If you select it, it gives you a shortened
version of a way they can get right to this article.
So, if you were creating a reading list...
Now, it does not look that much shorter but it is.
You can highlight, copy, and paste that.
They won't have to go into the database and make the search. - The link at the top won't work
at all. - Well, right. - In the other one
it has the proxy in front of it. So, when you actually go,
you can be off campus and it is going to prompt you to log
in. So, that link will always get you back to that spot. So many times
we have students come up to the desk. I saved all these URLs and I now can't get back to the full-text
article and this is due in 3 hours. There are tears and panic. It's all because
they saved that link on the top. I'm like sorry we can't do anything about it now. We are going to have replicate
your searches. - That, Mike, is that whole issue
that if they don't enter our house the same way, they are not going to be able to get
easily back to the content.
Ok? So, permalink is a wonderful resource that saves
you. If you were to build, you could then build
a whole list of resources that you want them to read and use the permalink.
The permanent link back to this.
Ok?
Question? Go ahead.
- The tools that you have wouldn't that come from beside the right?
- You know it doesn't appear until you go
into one article. - Into the article itself? - If you are looking just at the list
I am looking. Here is this great list that I have of 564
results. They are full-text. They are not scholarly.
I can change that and make it lower. I have a range. I can change all of these things
on the left hand side. So, you can see
the question about book reviews. If you select it
you will get just book reviews.
Is everyone? yes. Oh, I am sorry then there
are two questions. Here and then here. - I just sent a permalink to test them and it took me
to that page, not to the article. - It took you to
this page? - That is where it is going to take you. It is not going
to download the whole text. We will come back through.
Your question. I am looking at the PDF
full-text clicker thing there. It says
if you right click on it, it says you can copy the link address. Is that not
do anything for you. - Have Andy
I will have him look a that.
Yes?
Ok. I really am going to give you a full hour and a half
because there is a lot of information here.
I can see that this is good
because I feel that people are learning and seeing some new things. So, that
I am pleased.
We will come back and I will get your
librarian if you need someone to talk to about it. Thank you Katie.
Alright, here we are. We spent a lot of time
in the research area. So, course guides,
remember we can create one for you. The databases,
all different but the one that we recommend the most is Academic Search
Complete. It is a good place to start. It's the big blanket.
The other one I wanted to show, that has been coming up
and I have talked to several people about this was, you know,
having a librarian or somebody show you some
basics on a database. I know Deb has done this and
there are a couple. Somebody else has done this. We have one librarian, for all her databases
she makes a short video and
screen capture. So, you don't even have to cover
some of the things that I just did in class. They will show you for scholarly
articles and under video tutorials find
information video tutorials. We have been and we are actually
going to be creating six or seven more.
We are using Vimeo.
There are a lot of things in here. Here is Susan Hurst, the business librarian. Now, it is her
talking for just a minute. But, it is mostly her showing
the database, company research using Hoovers, which is a database.
I have one. We have one for everything.
How to use Thunder Room. Right. If you are
having student use Skype. I needed more information. Things that we answer
or get a lot of questions on. We created more and more.
One of the other things that we are doing is
creating SciFinder.
Is anyone from the sciences?
- Excuse me. - Yes. - How did you get to those? - Sure, on the front page
of the library site it says under
hang on let me get the page here.
I will go back. Under find information, video
tutorials.
Video tutortials.
One of the things that we are moving towards
are videos in Chinese.
So, we have someone on staff
that is helping us
and doing our instruction on some basic databases
and tours and different things in Chinese. So, we are moving
in that regard because we have a lot of students.
I wanted you to see that. That is important.
and we have so many new students
that are unfamiliar with the culture of our library.
- This is a side topic but since we have these international students, do you have a number
of international textbooks as well? - No we don't. The question was
do we have international textbooks. However, we had funding
and I bought translators. So, we have electronic
translating units at the front desk by the iPads.
I just let the international office know. We got them last year. We put them over
in the - It's just a visual thing, that they slide over the text? - No,
they would have to do some searching on their...I could bring one in so that you
see it. Why not. Kaite will go get one. - Actually this raises a good question
because this came up in our classes.
So, the professor couldn't figure out whether she was going to allow
students to bring those to exams. - Yes, I got a call
from Ray Gorman about that. - Exactly, because it was from me. - Oh, thank you.
- So, that is something that people when they are
constructing their syllabi really need to think about now. Are you going to let the
international students, who are having some english...
- The thing needed to understand is technologically it is not going out. It is not an open
access Internet searching. It is a word for word.
It is an online translator. So, there was no
upper hand in my opinion that they would get
- They decided to let them. - They did. Ok, they wanted to understand that it wasn't really
like a smartphone. That they could then go out and use internet access
It was not the case.
So, there are several in here.
I apologize. It is is heavier in the business area. But, if you want
or interested in something like this we can help you do that.
If you are creating an online course and you want them to learn this database
that is a skill set that you do not need to cover.
You can do a small screen Camtasia video
and put it. If anyone is interested in seeing
it this is a very small little translator.
They are getting more. We want to get Korean and Mandarin.
We are going to need Arabic.
Someone else said that too. We need money first.
That is one and then I need to get some other ones.
But, we are making our very basic how do
you get around in the library. Where are the books? Basic things for that.
and for them to understand we are doing them in Chinese.
Ok.
Ok.
If you don't know
who is responsible for your area or your division,
a staff person. In the about section there is a link to the librarians.
It has their email and their phone numbers. You can just say hi,
I'm a faculty member here, and I need your help.
That is what they are there for. I would like to have a LibGuide for my
course. It is online. I need to talk
to somebody about having a video or a screen capture of
your databases made. If you want to talk to them and have have somebody
just take and go through your assignment.
for you. We are really going to see it from the student end.
What the assignment reads like
to them because they take it so literally.
We are willing to do that.
Whatever you need. Especially with the assignment. Does this work? How would they
access these resources?
Ok? Everyone feel like they have seen something new?
Before we move on. Is that hands of approval?
So,...
let us...
well the one was JSTOR, if anyone is
doing historic. The comment was JSTOR databases.
Some of my favorite databases people don't always like. Like Andy said we
have LexisNexis. I absolutely love it
as a resource. If you are not familiar with it LexisNexis
is enormous database of full-
text, primarily corporate. But news
papers and international newspapers.
So, if you needed to find something and it's full-text and it's the most up to date.
Where you are going to find it is under L. LexisNexis
The other one is JSTOR is the one people were mentioning.
What is JSTOR? You can find it.
You can see full-text articles of important scholarly periodicals in the all
of these fields.
We are all hitting it at the same, if you are interest in that.
Now, historic, old
but full-text. Now I can't seem to get into it.
It is scrolling. Did anyone try? - I can't either.
- That's ok. That is one
that if you are interested. The other one
is LexisNexis and I am going to show that one.
It is L-e.
The one I like is called
easy search, LexisNExis general. There is a lot. There is news
There's legal,
congressional information full-text.
If you are looking for anything that happened in the news, in a newspaper,
from 1980 full-text
you can search for it here. At one time LexisNexis
use to send us this nice letter because they are up in Dayton
right off of 75. This is what your bill
would cost if you did not get your educational discount.
It is usually in the millions of dollars. If you see any legal drama
that they are always searching online. If you look
geeky libraries are like what database are they using. You see up in the corner LexisNexis.
Any movie that they are searching for files
or criminal records. They will make it look old LexisNexis. I
mean it's in... everyone can use it. It's very fun.
To me, this is the way I like to talk to students about validating information
or something that has happened in another country. Looking at their news
sources. Could you look at a newspaper or a collection
of newspapers, somewhere else.
You can select different things, wire services,
magazines, broadcast transcripts.
You are not going to believe it. In and out, different times, different television shows
the transcripts are available. Did you ever see that at the end of 60 Minutes? - Yes.
- The transcripts are available. They are in here.
It use to have Oprah but no longer has Oprah. That was big thing, like Oprah transcript
were in LexisNexis. Not that we were searching for
it but.
I just put in berka.
I asked for newspapers
and we are really going to get
the most up to date information.
Some of our other databases there is a real delay.
There are embargoes. I mean the publishers they have us.
But, to me LexisNexis
hopefully they are not in some factory in Bangladesh with people
typing all this stuff in. That is what it makes me think of.
- Who are some offenders or what is difficult to get in terms of
like embargoes and that sort of thing?
There are a couple of journals that I know, just
I can't think of the name because I just helped a faculty member.
It was actually Mark Mcbride needed a journal
and they embargo it for a year before making it publicly available online.
- Is Hoovers, don't we get delayed data from them too? - Hoovers I believe
is a little bit like a six month delay. But, in the business world that is
crucial. I just want to make sure you
could see LexisNexis. I am not saying this is just business. This is newspapers.
International, yes. Katie
does a lot with international students in different departments and this is
phenomenal for finding information.
If I have time I am going to show this one website that we talk to my students about looking at
information. How can you think it's real or not real. I am not getting philosophical,
like do you see it or not. But, is this valid
information. - The onion. - Like the onion. Yes. Students don't know what the onion is.
I am always like oh no. Right,
because they get some of those articles, they get fooled.
I use LexisNexis at times to
show an example of how did you go back and really find out if that was
real. Well, I went to the countries newspapers and I found some articles about
the topic that is on that website. - So, this would be interesting I was thinking personal and professional
for example what just happened with the Boston Bombing?
- Sure. - The way it would be reported in Chehnya
verse the way it is being reported here would give us a great perspective in terms of
who is believing whom and you know - Exactly.
The slant. How do they get their news source.
Evaluating where the content comes from
content but where the source. Right. Follow the money.
- *muffled speech* - Right. Yes.
- I may have missed this when someone said this. If you want to limit
look for sources only from one country
- There is a way. I will show you later. It is a little more complicated but you can
get into the sources. Katie will come over and show you. You can actually just select one
newspaper to search. I just want the Times or something.
This plain, plain Jane I
always say, like JSTOR. I clicked on JSTOR. It finally loaded up. Nothing
fancy but boy is it fast.
Right. You are looking at
certain areas. This is where the humanities are not under represented.
This is where you are going to find a lot of the back information.
Now, it is going to take a lot of time. I just clicked on
load, which is crazy. So,...
It breaks it down. But again, historic. I am talking
1897. Some of it is current. That one had a current
one. So, you are going to see
how it gives us some information.
That one is current too.
JSTOR, journal of storage. Old journals that have
been digitize. This is big bucks.
- Now there is a published date and external content date.
- Yes. Some of it and then there is like an embargo. We don't always
get all of it. You have to buy. Getting a full run
of an expensive journal is complicated. - And expensive - And
expensive because one they have us that you can't cancel the print if you want the electronic
as well.
- Keeps publishers alive. - Yes. This is what keeps the publisher alive.
- I just want to know about that thing. - Yes. Let me
keep moving because we are running out. Yes.
- *muffled speech*
- Let go through. Let me comeback and show you. Some of it is,
the whole thing is there and one....
Ok, let me write myself a note to comeback if people are interested in some of those.
Ok.
This is great I want to make sure that you are using some of our most
expensive data bases so that we can show they get used. They have the most information
in them and they are getting used. What is the most expensive?
- I am going to say LexisNexis. I am going to say
because we a get a consortium as the state of Ohio
is really was one of the ones that the directors of libraries
came together and said, sort of, up yours.
We will come together and buy it at this price. You can't bully
us. Really Ohio was, I know this sounds kind of silly. It was the first
state to do this. I am from Pennsylvania and we studied Ohio when I was in grad school.
It was people like our former Dean and a Dean a Bowling
Green and Ohio State that said we would never be able to afford
these things on our own. If we united and then came as sort of
the aggressor and say this what we will pay. We need
to have these resources and that is what they did. That is how OhioLink
started. - I have a question - Yes. - In my...
*muffled speech* - Yes. Yes.
- Some of one part of the congressional
but most of them are full IP range. - Ok.
- Yes. That is the other thing. We don't always get databases that we want,
just 5 simultaneous users. That is part
of a lot of negotiations. I want it for 30. If I am paying for
IP range of 16,000 they get us for FDE. That's how
you pay. If there is a problem with something let me know.
Now some of your databases might. Some of the science ones... There is one
science on I know of that has that. A chemical one that is just outrageous.
Chemistry people, American...
I don't want to bad mouth them. Ok. Sorry.
So, the next part of what I want to talk about
is, lets talk about Google. Alright.
The overall
product of choice and
where people start, and we all do it,
is Google. Right.
We are becoming an end all be all with them and their
products are fabulous. They have changed the way we do things.
We help students. So, what I did was and I am not big on
print but for me, and I take what people told me, the print of this
works best. Here is a handout.
Katie if you don't mind could you...
It is every short cut that Google offers
search wise in a print. I have had people laminate
this and pin it up on their board, like how do I do that again. I just
don't want to look at some of these extra
little things. I mean it is all
in here. It is in advanced. It is in different
search strategies. But, once you start to know them you just start
using them and typing them in. I am an
aggressive keyboarder. I like to type.
I use it for everything. So, I don't want to have to always click click click. I want to type it in.
I have certain search strategies. I already know the commands.
I know how to make it work better and that is what we talk to the students about
is I know you search Google but lets make it a better search
Mary Jane? - So,
- Sorry. - Many of us often
have to use literature in another language. So, we wanted
a definition of a word - Yes. - You would go to find
and put the international word. - Yes. It does translate. It has an incredible
translator. - You can write translate code. - Yes. - Because I usually type it out,
what is the translation of. - No, no. Remember this is a machine.
One of the things that we are
trying to talk to students about is how does it really work.
How does it work?
I am going to just show a quick
minute and a half video of people from Google. They have already talked to you
about this.
Talking to students about how does it really work one and then showing them
strategies to search better.
That in return works for you as well. It is one part
of the puzzle, where I am going to search. So, library resources
versus structured databases and some of the resources and getting
what you can find through Google.
I want to talk a little bit more but I really want to set you free.
I know people are like, what does this mean? What does site search mean?
Site search to me is one of my favorite ones. Is that I
can actually select a URL and have it searched
in the site for me. - Where is that at? - Site.
On the right on the front. It is in the top...
- You went to look up an annual report instead of going through 50 different pages. - Yes.
Annual report, or site, colon.
Annual report maybe in quotes. Bundle these comands
Annual Report:www.ge.com
- What is happened to the other multiple lines for searching?
- It is still here. The adavanced search, once you start searching there is an
advanced search. It is all still there. But, this is just a short cut.
sheet of every command. - I am trying but nothing is coming up.
- Ok, one second there. - I can't find
anything. - I can't find anything.
Oh, no. Ok.
- Do you just want to search for a little bit now. - Yes. - Ok.
You want a little hands on right now. People are like...
Space is there. Cite:muohio.edu.
Ok. So, I am looking at somebodies website
and certain things should come up.
depending on, but at least it is right there. Do you know what I mean? I am going
get to a main page. But I am putting in a keyword.
site, colon, and the
URL. - You didn't put it in quotes. - I did
not because admission is a single word. If it was a phrase
I am not sure this one will work. I am going to test this
one. I don't know if it will work. - You probably won't like
the results.
- *muffled speech* - No
Glen is. The professors. - Oh.
- It is in there.
- We wont go right to it. You can read that on your own time.
It's a good...
So, there is a website called
Rate my Professors, not that I want to get into that.
I can actually, if there is a site with a listing of lots of names or something,
site searching. I don't have to do the search. I don't have to go through it.
So, site searching
Link. Look on the handout for the link search.
This is another one that is kind of interesting.
Link. Find link page
Find pages that point to a URL.
So, if I type in link, Colon, and a
webpage I created. - Where is that? - It is under
restrict search. Right in the middle. Link:
So, lets say
I am..fantuchi.com or something along those lines.
and I want to see who has my website
linked on their page. It will bring up a result list
of showing people who have mine on the back.
- There was a story in Wired this week about
how to find confidential information. The NSA just released
a report. Did you see that? The government had a report about how they used Google to spy
on people and it got publicly released. It has these great Google
tips for finding spy information. This was one of the
searches that they recommended. So, if you do site.za, which is South Africa.
and then file type xls. That means you are looking for
spread sheet files. Then the word confidental
You get all this South African government confidential
Google web... I think they have purged some of it since the article came out.
- Yes. Its always 126,000. It was like 100,000 and some.
- I actually did this for Miami to see what I could find. I did not find anything. So, that was...
- So, what he did was, you know how a domain works,
right. You have certain parts of a domain, muohio or
miamioh.edu
That high level domain gives you an
indication of where it is or what it is. Right. So, edu is
usually higher ed. Unless it has a K-12
Then there are states, .ou. Now
there are country codes. Right.
So, you can get country codes, two letters.
If you are interested in those I can show you the country code list.
Ok.
JSTOR we are done with. Alright
we are at time. Peter is going to come over here and start making faces at me real soon.
So, Google Scholar.
Now... - How did you get into that? - I
just, I'm a typer, scholar.google.com. - But where
do we find it? - You can...
It's under more. Even more. There is a big list of them.
You can go through, select, and pull out. But because
I am using a browser I start typing scholar.
Google and it comes up.
So, a lot of you said
you are using Google Scholar as a mechanism as well, right, to find things.
To find some things. Again if you
are going to come in and use this on campus you are possibly
going to be linked back to resources that we already have
because it is pulling from some of the databases that they have been given access too.
This is not everything and this is just starting.
Right. This is just starting. But it is a key.
So, it
has a set of its own. You can just search. You can put other things
in. So, I was looking for Peter Magolda.
So, if I put in Peter Magolda just as,
without quotes or anythings, I am going to get a series of
articles that appear, that looks like Peter is the author.
Especially the first ones that come up.
So, right away it is going to show you, hey these are
available already somewhere at Miami.
That's what it
does. It overlaps some of the content you are already looking at
but not by discipline. Right. The databases
we have are structured by education. So, for Peter I would have to go into some
of the education databases and look up Peter Magolda. In Google Scholar,
Peter Magolda. It does not search
my database. It is just going to give me any indication of articles that
Peter wrote.
But then if it is available.
Now there is a way to ensure. So, it says 1,300.
I am not sure if he is the author or mentioned in citing.
So, there is a way to ensure
that he is the author by putting author, colon,
Peter Magolda and from 1,200 I have 256.
Again, knowing some
of the advance searches that are in that advance button are
going to make your life a lot simpler. So, I know right away.
So, people want to know why
did this one, the campus tour one, which was really controversial at it's time,
for Peter...
Why is that the first one? Does anyone...Why is that the first one?
- Relevance. - Relevance yes and no. - Cite. - It's
the cites. How many times cited. So, your impact
indicator numbers that people sometimes look for.
This works very similar.
- I get it. It's scholarly because it's how often this has been cited. - Yes.
- *muffled speech* - Ok
- There is no number. It is touchy. It is still a machine.
It is author:Peter Magolda.
- Thank you. - Your welcome. See. It is that touchy. That is where students are like ooh
it's not working. It's a series of characters.
If you are going to cite someone, you are doing research and you are going to cite
someone this will tell you the this first person is the best site. - I mean
this has, he is cited the most on this article. So, his most other
popular article that has been cited. This where we were talking
like am I finding everything. Looking at the
citations, going backwards. Andy said go to the back of the book
or go to the article. It is right here.
There are the 46 articles that cite Pete's article
in some way. Are they connected subject
wise? I don't know. Discipline? I have no idea.
I would assume it is something with higher ed.
But again,
it is not always there and sometimes students will say I used
Google Scholar and it's asking me to pay for the article. Yes it will.
We may not have everything that is here
or access to it. - But you say...
- Right. Right. Some of it is and they will see.
They will see. But this
isn't everything that is in Academic Search Complete.
It is not the same set of data.
But, it is a great way to show people
how do I pick an author. You know what I like it for?
If students can't, they have an incomplete citation.
Katie's nodding. People come up, there is an article. His name is
Pete or Peter. It is something about,
he talks about the Rec Center and he makes a slam against them.
Obviously that is what the campus tour one is about.
- Mike? - Do many student's use Interlibrary when they can't find it?
Well, we promote it. It is something we will...
it is not something they come about and I wonder if this library would borrow it for me.
That just never seems to occur to a student, a undergrad.
But, grad students understand that concept much better.
- *muffled speech*
- Yes, it is something we promote. The moment I say to students
I want you to think of your world. Here we are going to search Miami's catalog, what we have here
at Miami. Then we will search the state, OhioLink.
WorldCat searches, anything published in the world.
If they have it somewhere in WorldCat, I can borrow it.
Now, it doesn't happen tomorrow. That is the other thing,
the concept of mail and regular snail-mail is now
part of it, shipping a book and things like that. So, we put planning your research.
So, yes inter-library loan.
Ok, so Google Scholar,
something new, wonderful.
So, if you have an incomplete citation this is a great place to
just throw in some key words and try to find bits and pieces.
Somebody might have cited it. I always seem to get
a french name that has an L and an apostrophe.
The student doesn't really get all of it.
That has been a hard one. I could put in
lets try..
authors:steve
Steve is in here
18 times as author
and his citations.
I am not sure if it is all steve because I am not sure he has written
written in numerology and....
Ok. Search for your
self. Right. This is one of the things that everybody does in Google.
How often do you do it in Google Scholar? What do you look like in Google Scholar?
- *muffled speech* - Depends.
You want to bring it up, go ahead.
So, you can at least get an idea what has been cited.
Related articles. Right. If you are looking for
somebody else who has published something similar.
Those types of things.
There is the biggest bug above your head.
On the wall. Sorry. I am going to get somebody.
Sorry.
Ok. Yes. Look yourself up on Google Scholar. See what it is.
You can change the date, you can change a range. Right. Articles
legal documents, different things you are looking for. - Autobiographies?
- If you are interested in that? - I published something on...
- Katie is going to show something that I don't even use. - How about.. Is this
synced at all with Active Moodle?
- I don't know enough about it. - I noticed that is when...
So, Katie showed that you can actually create your own profile.
So, if people were looking for you and they find more information
It would come up and link directly to this profile.
It's my citations. It will step you
through creating a profile.
Because I really want to give that whole hour for you to have
hands on time,
there is one other Google Section. Everyone is like
where are you finding all these Google things. There is the Google. Then there is the more Google.
Then there is the even more Google. Alright.
More, even more. - Oh my gosh, I missed
how you got into that. - Oh, it's right on the front page.
-Yes. - Sorry.
So, here if you are at Google there is a more. So, you have search, images, mail, drive.
calender, sites, more, even more. If you
select that you are going to see
a huge amount of offerings that they provide.
Other things, this
is like as they take over different companies or services and buy them.
This is where they will put them. YouTube and different things along those lines.
One that says scholars there. There is another one that
I like that is called Trends. Google Trends.
It has changed over time. I used
to really like it because it used to keep much more historical
information like big lists of what people searched for.
But you can look at
something that is trending, a topic and it is going to show you
countries that are talking about it.
Where the search is coming in. Where the information is
coming in from. Google Trends.
Ok. So, the one that is popping up
as soon as I hit it, A is Abercrombie and Fitch.
So, there is a lot going on right now. Did I spell Abercrombie right?
So,
I typed in this word. The number of
100s represent peak search interest, like when did people search about
them and what was happening at that time?
Now, I am sure exactly on... I didn't do a lot of background
on it but I am sure some of these other peaks probably had to do with ad campaigns that
went badly because that is what they were known for. Some of the imagery
that they had. But recently they are in the news for their CEO
sang some horrible thing.
So, now they are on the upswing. Right. It is a trending
topic. It shows you the relatable terms
that people are searching and who is searching
about, what countries. Then you can modify
that. I am not sure exactly how
you can say how does this pertain. What could I do? I
could look at images, the news, product
videos about it, I
change it. So, lets just see. It is saying this goes back to 2004.
But, let me see in the last seven days.
Well, lets go back. Lets do the last 30.
So, really when did it peak? When did it break?
The story and what is it. The interesting thing is you can actually put
two terms and compare them.
- *muffled speech*
- Well some of them
you can mimic. Some of the things over here in years.
Add other terms. Change some of the stuff. On
categories you can actually change.
When Swine Flu was coming out and it was H1N1,
you could search, and I had my students do some comparison
searching on that. It was called Swine Flu in different countries.
We refer to...or people refer to it as H1N1.
Looking at the search terms, How did they search? Where did it surge? What country
was really talking about?
There is another one that was a company
that had a total meltdown.
- Amy's Bakery
Something ABC, is what it.
- Yes. No one really knew who these people were
So, lets do
So, interesting thing is, who is
really talking about it, just the states.
Nobody, in the...hello.
- Wait where is this? - This is Amy's Bakery.
It was recently in the news on an event that happened with them with Facebook.
- They were on Kitchen Nightmare. - Kitchen Nightmare. There was a
situation there. So, it is pop culture. They were in the news
and then they used social media to fight a cake in the sense.
Then they turned out to be a bit nuts. But,
using something called Google Trends, you could see
that you could apply using something to make a comparison.
of information. Alright.
- Did this effect Abercombie sales for the last three days as a result?
- You can look at and see if they have had a decline.
Look at the market. Has it gone up?
Now see that would be very interesting as their hot term... - We are bringing the salesman out
- So, Google Trends.
I am going to six more. Peter is looking at me through the window.
I can't show that.
Alright.
- Can I ask a question? - Yes, you may.
- When I was going through those
it has suggested YouTubes for me.
It was almost like they were following me. - Of course they are following you. Do you remember
what MAT Cut says that they do about 200 things.
There is one. There is a location. It is really
hard to turn off inside of Google now. They have made it much more difficult. It
bases.. You know when you start searching for a Steve. It automatically put
in Miami University. They know the IP. They know
where we are coming from. There are a lot of questions that they will answer
very quickly on certain information they gathered from your computer.
- I thought.. Are they gathering it from other Google Searches or from like...
because this would be probably from my Facebook stuff? - Possibly, your other history,
your IP. - But Google is not Facebook and yet they are
interdigitating with others? - Think about how the video I showed
about how it works, the relevance. How
many times did the occurrence of this and what you search
for? - So, could a hacker
get in there because what I was searching for was...? - I should say
they can. Of course they can get into anything.
Well if you are putting personal information and banking and all the things that we do.
But I am not saying you wouldn't do that. Of course they can get in there. But,
Google is containing and building a case of who you are Mary Jane and your
searching history and what you look for. They are trying to build that
preference searching. Think about Amazon. The way Amazon works.
People who looked at this would also like this. They are building that
preference in there. For the most part people like that. Sometimes
when you are searching... Go ahead Artie. - This is why
a lot of technologies think Facebook
and Google are the two big competitors. They will often talk about
Google versus Apple. But the real
competitor for Google is Facebook, not
Apple. Google actually looses money on Android. They are not
- That does not matter. - That does not matter. The thing that matters to Google is
knowing as much as they can about you. If you are uncomfortable
with that like I am then
be careful. But just realize that is what they are... that is their business model. - Yes but if
your actually interested in something and reading about some things like I
am, it is because certain things pop up on Facebook
What am I going to do, stop reading about that stuff?
- *muffled speech* - Are you asking whats my advice
from a security standpoint. I do not know. I would just say that you have to recognize that is
what Google is trying to do. They have
for the past 10 years. Their goal has been to know everything about the web that they can.
The next 10 years is going to be knowing everything about every individual user.
- About Mary Jane. Trying to make sure it is honed about you.
- They have got us. They are not going to give that
algorithm the way that they search away. - They talk about being opened and all that stuff.
That all is a bunch of crap. - That is crap. - The reality is what they make money on
they are crazy closed about, which is their algorithms. - Right,
they repackage all of that and sell it to businesses.
- This is how they make money. - Yes, I am not saying it's bad.
Everybody is pissed off about it but you get all this stuff for free.
Do you want to start paying for it? - Exactly.
- Then you could probably be like, track nothing I
do and I will pay. - Yes, there is an anonymous search. There are all sorts of things.
But, again it's building... - There are alternatives to Google
that do not do any tracking whatsoever, that are pretty good.
- DuckDuckGo is my favorite. - There are some other ones.
- *muffled speech* - Ok,
we have like four minutes. No even, like three. So, what I want to do is
there are two more little things. I am going to link to them.
This really is more business. But, there is another one called Google Think.
It is listed there and it has
what people are searching for, what are they clicking
on, and it is going to show you. It is a lot of brand issues.
Kind of find it interesting as a way to look at it. But this is more personal.
Ok.
At the end I usually try to talk to
students what are some of the ways that you can look at the information
that you are obtaining and evaluate it.
This is the most difficult part and I am going to spend less then two minutes on it.
But, there are some ways
it is really much more complicated,
is finding where does this information come from.
Who is the source of the information? Right. How
has it been generated? We like to look at them and you think that there is
five easy steps. Oh, the author
well are you really going to dig and find who the author
is. Right. Looking at the information. Is it valid?
There is an opinion there. The information coming from PETA
is going to say one thing and information from.
- *muffled speech* - Yes, or the American Beef
Council, with their great music that they play on those commercials, what are they going to say?
Where does the information come from? Looking
bias, source, author. One of the
things I try to help students understand is
they always say I want to start a business or I want to do something with my friend
and they go and register domains and they go and get an
identity out there. Glen did it, I think a couple years ago,
in class because we found some that were open and he purchased them while I was
talking, very simple to do. Right.
One I have to get the address or obtain some of that information that I can...
where I am going to put my information. I like to make sure people
understand you can get domains
You can purchase them. People
purchase them and then in turn sell them.
- I own muohio.net. I was waiting for my soundbite.
- He is waiting for Miami to come knocking.
- I tried to, as soon as they announced I could buy miamioh. I tried to buy all the other ones.
- What about Niihka.net. - I don't think they. -Right.
- One of the things that I
like to look at when I talk to students about current events and using information technology,
it is usually something around election time. I seem
to teach at these pinnacle points in time, around election time.
I always find that fascinating and it is fun.
We will watch how people start registering domains.
There was an article about hints that Hillary Clinton is going to run,
is that she is starting to buy up all the domains of every
iteration of her name. Ok.
So, these are ways that people use indicators of
information So, if I want to look at Hillary
Clinton and I just want to see what is available
I can pick all these domains.
Tell me what can I get. I don't know search now.
It is going to show me what is available and what is already taken,
and registered and someone is paying for it. You
put in Hillary 2016, same thing.
You going in is indicators first.
Why? To own the information and the source where
comes from. Hillary Sucks is already purchased.
What was interesting was that it was purchased last
year and I can see who they are and their address. - Wait, you can?
You can. Follow the money. There
is this little tiny search at the bottom of the this site, which is just called
Networks Solutions. It is one of many places, like Godaddy.
and all those other products that sell domains. But, there is a command, which
is actually an old time units demand. Who is, who is?
It is all in caps. Who is?
- So, you are searching who bought Hillary Sucks?
- I can search by IP.
Somebody in Scottsdale, Arizona already
owns it and they bought it. Now it is a 3rd party
provider. They are going to be willing to sell it to someone who wants it.
So,..
Following the money. Right. Indicators, people buying
domains and selling domains. They try to get
where the source, where does it come from?