Invisible webs
Hi everyone!
Today, I learned to use two different types of invisible webs during this practical. One of them is called EbscoHost and the other is called Factiva. Both the invisible webs are found in the TP’s Digital Library Portal Research Gateway via http://spark.tp.edu.sg/. Before attending this lesson, I didn't know that there were such faculties in the TP library website until i was introduced the different search gateway that is found in the website. I didn't even know that such invisible web existed whereby we students are given special privileges to search for information in the website.
I decided to do a search on twitter, a social networking tool for this activity as we had just done the tutorial on it during results.
Firstly, I did my search on EbscoHost. It was really a good search engine. There were Boolean operators in the search page itself and the engine is able to classify keywords in to the type of field which we want, it is very different as compare to normal search engine like Google. There were also similar search properties like advanced search as compare to most search engine that is available to the public. Apart from that, there were functions to allow the user to refine the search according to news, journal, books, etc. When the search results were given, the engine gives full detail of the article itself, classifying it according to the document type, the author of it and even the word count for the entire article. Abstract of the article is also given right at the top of all the information which allow the user to identify the summary from the whole chunk of information.
After trying out invisible web (databases), I would say that it is more effective as compare to search engines, meta-search or subject directories because it helps the user refine the search and place them accordingly to different sections. Also the information found is more relevant as compare to search engines. However search engines which are available to public gives results that most people would want to find at a instant which is good if basic information is needed.
However the good point about invisible web used in tp is that we can find more information directly related to our school projects and course. I would use ProQuest Science & Sociology or EbscoHost because this two invisible web databases are relating to engineering which is useful for my course.
Today, I learned to use two different types of invisible webs during this practical. One of them is called EbscoHost and the other is called Factiva. Both the invisible webs are found in the TP’s Digital Library Portal Research Gateway via http://spark.tp.edu.sg/. Before attending this lesson, I didn't know that there were such faculties in the TP library website until i was introduced the different search gateway that is found in the website. I didn't even know that such invisible web existed whereby we students are given special privileges to search for information in the website.
I decided to do a search on twitter, a social networking tool for this activity as we had just done the tutorial on it during results.
Firstly, I did my search on EbscoHost. It was really a good search engine. There were Boolean operators in the search page itself and the engine is able to classify keywords in to the type of field which we want, it is very different as compare to normal search engine like Google. There were also similar search properties like advanced search as compare to most search engine that is available to the public. Apart from that, there were functions to allow the user to refine the search according to news, journal, books, etc. When the search results were given, the engine gives full detail of the article itself, classifying it according to the document type, the author of it and even the word count for the entire article. Abstract of the article is also given right at the top of all the information which allow the user to identify the summary from the whole chunk of information.
After trying out invisible web (databases), I would say that it is more effective as compare to search engines, meta-search or subject directories because it helps the user refine the search and place them accordingly to different sections. Also the information found is more relevant as compare to search engines. However search engines which are available to public gives results that most people would want to find at a instant which is good if basic information is needed.
However the good point about invisible web used in tp is that we can find more information directly related to our school projects and course. I would use ProQuest Science & Sociology or EbscoHost because this two invisible web databases are relating to engineering which is useful for my course.
posted by Ethan Ong | 12:33 AM
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