How To Search

Purpose: Scope: Any electronic search environment. Examples can be found in the "Searches A-Z" section of the book.
 * 1) Provide a quick reference guide for electronic information searching.
 * 2) Teach information seekers how to form accurate searches in electronic environments.

Audience: All information seekers in electronic environments.

Reference Guide
This reference guide quickly answers how to use various electronic searches. This may include an Internet search engine such as /Google/ or /Yahoo/, a library web catalog such as /Library of Congress/, a personal computer file searcher such as /grep/, or any other electronic search mechanism. Some knowledge of Boolean logic is helpful and if you don't know how to use the AND, OR, NOT operators, please read the Teaching How to Search section of this Wikibook.

Each search page should list Boolean operators, other operators, and available search fields as well as the purpose, audience, and scope of that search.

How to search...

 * /Google/
 * /Amazon/
 * /BioMed Central/
 * /Directory of Open Access Journals/
 * /Google/
 * /Library of Congress/
 * /Millennium-III/
 * /MOBIUS Consortium/
 * /MS Windows file search/
 * /OhioLINK/
 * /PubMed/
 * /Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/
 * /Wikia/
 * /Yahoo/
 * The United States Patent and Trademark office ( http://uspto.gov/ )
 * /Feedster/
 * /Other search type list/

Search Filters

 * /Against Obscene Content/
 * /For Certain Address Endings/

Teaching How to Search: Theory and Instruction
The following book sections give general theory and instruction about searching in an electronic environment:


 * 1) Types of resources
 * 2) Boolean Logic
 * 3) The information search process

Related books

 * Searching for files and within files on Windows
 * Grep