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List of contents
Contents: Volume I: Sciences: agriculture, earth sciences, chemistry, biosciences, engineering and energy Search strategies: some general considerations, Chris Armstrong and Andrew Large; Agriculture, Marilyn Mullay; Earth science, Lisa Wishard and Melissa Lamont; Chemistry, Ian Young; Biosciences, Frank R. Kellerman; Engineering and energy, Stephanie McKeating and Roddy MacLeod; Index. Volume II: Business, Law and Patents: patents, business and economics, news and current affairs, law Search strategies: some general considerations, Chris Armstrong and Andrew Large; Patents, Edlyn S. Simmons; Business and economics, Jacqueline Cropley and Gwenda Sippings; News and current affairs, Peter Chapman; Law, John Williams; Index. Volume III: Humanities and Social Sciences: Citations, social and behavioural sciences, humanities and education resources Search strategies: some general considerations, Chris Armstrong and Andrew Large; Citations, David Bawden; Social and behavioural sciences, Mark Watson; Humanities, Vince Graziano; Education resources, Lynne Lighthall and Linda Dunbar; Index.
About the author
Chris J. Armstrong Formerly a university research officer in information and library studies, Managing Director of Information Automation Limited (IAL), a consultancy and research company. In 1993 IAL set up the Centre for Information Quality Management on behalf of the Library Association and the UK Online User Group. Chris is a regular conference speaker and author of books and articles; a Fellow of the Institute of Analysts and Programmers; and a member of the Institute of Information Scientists, the UK Online User Group and the Library Association. Andrew Large is CN-Pratt-Grinstad Professor of Information Studies, and was formerly Director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, at McGill University in Montreal. He has both written and edited a number of other books, including Information Seeking in the Online Age. He is joint editor of the quarterly Education for Information and has written many articles and conference papers.
Summary
This title was first published in 2001. Comprehensively updated, this three-volume edition of the Manual of Online Search Strategies covers the whole range of Internet, CD-ROM and dial-up online services, and includes several new chapters. International experts on each subject area, selected from the UK and North America, describe in detail how to identify and exploit specialist bibliographic and non-bibliographic databases, the best search methods and delivery modes, and the relative merits of different services and online hosts in their different disciplines. Numerous examples of search results are used to illustrate different strategies and commands. Each volume includes the editors’ introductory chapter on search strategies, which gives an overview of searching language, platforms and vendors, interfaces and search and database evaluation methods. The Manual can be used as a subject handbook, a directory of recommended resources and as a textbook. This new edition provides extensive guidance for searchers of electronic information and is particularly useful for those working in a subject area other than their own. Readers will gain a professional 'edge' from the skill and wisdom that the specialist authors have passed on in their chapters and will be able to expand their searching techniques into new areas.
