Presentation for Ref22, a monthly webinar for reference and virtual reference librarians through the Washington State Library. Redux of "Searcher's Academy 2.0", a full-day pre-conference at the 2009 Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey, CA.

1. A recap of the Helpful tools and resources Of searcher’s academy 2.0 Ahniwa Ferrari Statewide coordinator, ask-wa 2009 November 10 Ref22:Searchers’ Academy 2.0Redux

2. Chris Sherman, SearchEngineLand.com Google – Guardian of the Status Quo Some neat features through Google Labs, though. Show options, fast flip, city tours, google squared, google trends, google insights for search, google visualization APIs, google flu trends … Yahoo! – The Emperor’s New Clothes Focusing on what happens “before and after search”, e.g. browsing. Bing – Assimilator as Innovator Bing Reference, travel, xrank Wolfram Alpha – NOT a search engine? Closed-source data sets, tough time with natural language, fairly smart sometimes, can do complex computational analysis

3. Google: Show Options

4. Google squared: google.com/squared

5. Google Visualization APIs: browse the gallery, or learn how to create your own APIs to show data in new and useful ways.

6. BING! – Bing Is Not Google?

7. Bing Reference: Uses Powerset to pull data from Wikipedia, but compiles from multiple articles into one “enhanced” article.

8. Wolfram Alpha:Computational Knowledge Engine

10. More Searches …

12. Mary Ellen Bates: Bates Information Service“Digging into the Deep Web” Google.com/translate_s Translate your search into Spanish, retrieve pages in Spanish that match your search, and translate them back into English Available for other languages too. WolframAlpha, more fun with. 26.22 miles (length of a marathon), 4.8x height of Mount Everest, 3.9x greatest ocean depth (provides interesting comparisons) Earthquakes near Japan – provides map with timeline, can facet search by magnitude, time

13. Deepdyve – federated, some free and some pay Primarily medical and patent searching – can handle large chunks of text and return relevant results Scirus – indexes science-related sites only Primarily free, has good advanced search and refine options NOT the first place to go for open access journals Biznar: semi-random collection of business resources, use as brainstorming search, good faceting Mednar: over 60 medical resources, similar to Biznar ScienceResearch: searches science.gov, OISter, WorldwideScience, e-Print network Worldwide Science Web: federation of 61 national science portals and databases

14. Mary Ellen Bates:Searching the Collaborative Web Twitter – useful because it is concise, people narrow their thoughts down to core ideas Blog search – technorati still best search engine, use authority filter to find more reliable blogs Facebook – useful for identifying interest groups and upcoming conferences – tap into groups and see their concerns, interests, questions etc. LinkedIn – limit search within X miles of you, search extended networks for subject experts, e.g. “find an expert on the ground” (tends to get good, quick responses)

15. OneRiot searches the LINKS that people share through social media and returns the actual web pages. Sort by realtime (most current), or pulse (most popular).

16. Twitter searches that work Monitor live action: “swine flu” or near:denver, within:25mi (based on your stated location) Find resources using filter:links Highlights of conferences, e.g. #il2009 Searching at twitter.com only searches last 7-9 days Support #hashtags and @searches Provides good advanced search tools Search twitter using Google using site:twitter.com Has a deeper archives, but does not support #hashtags or @, though it may in the near future

18. Marcy Phelps: Cost-Effective Searching Zapdata.com – d&b data on 14 million us businesses Includes industry reports using SIC codes, market analysis USPTO.gov – search patents and trademarks Includes guides, manuals, etc – useful for overview of market and competitive information Edgar.sec.gov – securities and exchange commission Search for info about market competitors, management bios

19. Medical searching Pubmed – search abstracts Pubmed Central – all full-text and digitized Clinicaltrials.gov – lots of filter options Power tools: “Clustering” very useful to get overview of subject, shows different aspects of a search Cluster with biznar.com, carrot2, clusty.com Verticals: specialize by content type / medium, not as broad but goes deeper PandiaPowersearch, zibb.com, UMichGovDocs Center

21. Science Verticals Searching is similar in all three, but content very different. Scienceresearch.com Scitopia.org Worldwidescience.org

22. Tracks hot trends from numerous sources, good pop culture and news searching tool.

23. Social web tools: Addictomatic.com – latest buzz on any topic Whostalkin.com – social media search Tweetdeck.com (download) – track twitter, including hashtags and saved searches on whatever you like Use technology: Google trends, see trends in a given area (down to city level) Silobreaker.com – news with analytical results, has hotspots Google news archive – handy for creating timelines, find out WHEN something was a hot topic Trendrr – tells you what topics were hot, and when

24. Business 2.0 Samepoint.com – business conversation search Ibizradio.com – business podcast directory and search – includes podcast statistics (can search for podcasts, but not within podcast text … yet) Technorati – still best for blog search Hellometro.com (also outside.in) – detailed info to neighborhood / zipcode level; find parks, local bands, crime stats, history and more.

25. Science 2.0 Arxiv.org – OA site over 500,000 e-prints in physics, math, compsci, quantitative bio, quantitative finance, and statistics Invention Dimension (web.mit.edu/invent) – potential inventors and innovators, shows who invents what, who holds patents, how to invent, etc. OAIster.org – great OA source of digital resources (now in WorldCat) Science.gov – gateway to over 1950 scientific websites with high authority Scirus.com (Elsevier) – more than 450million scientific items indexed to date Scitopia.org – searches digital libraries of 21 science and tech societies (many available fulltext) Shodor.org – computational science education, science and math, also modeling and simulation tech and animation Worldwidescience.org – global science gateway connecting users to national and international databases and portals – includes info from 15 international member organizations

26. More Science 2.0 Physics: physics.org Mathematics: www.math.fsu.edu/virtual/index.php Geology: geology.com Chemistry: antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml Biology: www.biology.arizona.edu Astronomy: astrobiology.nasa.gov

27. Legal Resources Justia and RECAP: justia.com / recapthelaw.org Court dockets, legal blog search, etc… NetrOnline.com – assessor and public records GovTracks.us – tracks federal legislation Oyez.org – listen to supreme court cases being argued – open archive of US Congress Openregs.com – federal regulations from the federal register

29. A recap of the Helpful tools and resources Of searcher’s academy 2.0 Ahniwa Ferrari Statewide coordinator, ask-wa 2009 November 10 Ref22:Searchers’ Academy 2.0Redux