Note: as the research for this topic has continued, I have been noticing that there are deadly penalties for violating a nation's policies regarding censorship. As such the titles of my postings will now reflect that issue. The title for this posting comes from a song called "We shall be free!" by Garth Brooks.
And now... onward!
The search tool I found that I feel will offer the most for my topic is "Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections". This seems to be a very useful tool when doing deep research.
In the "Advanced Search and Browse" there are all of the necessary tools for effective searching.
1. Search Options includes a multitude of tools that include but are not limited to: author, title, subject, and keyword.
2. "Search in these Subject Categories" lists a few of the subjects available to search even more in depth and specifically.
3. Limit search to: offers three limits to the search; Record Origin (Expert or Expert and bot), Record Access (Free or Fee Based), and Resource types i.e. article databases, abstracts and indexes etcetera.
4.Display options offers three ways to view the information, Title or full description, ranking by relevance or title only, and the number of results per page.
5. Last but not least are the search tips. Infomine supports full Boolean operators, including truncation, "and, or, not" and more.
I had heard of Infomine but never thought to look into it because at the time I had become burnt out on web searching (or maybe I just needed to go back to College.)
Daniel,
ReplyDeleteIt is good to know that there are scholarly vetted sources out there even if you do not have access to school databases. You did a great job of checking this one out.
I do heart Garth Brooks,
Sue