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December 06, 2007

Google does not equal the Web

A couple of weeks ago CIO published an article on better online information seeking behavior: "Six Techniques to Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell You."  Quoted are Jessamyn West and Amy Cullen, both librarians extraordinaire.  The article identifies business-centered online resources that aren't tapped by Google and other search engines, as well as alternative search engines.  I learned about two resources I hadn't been familiar with before--so I'm confident that there's something there for librarians too :)

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It was a good article, but I have a somewhat minor quibble.

She suggests going to the local library to search "Print news aggregators like Factiva and LexisNexis [which] allow you to perform keyword searches on business publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune and Harvard Business Review—three great publications for current business information." I may be wrong, but I think LexisNexis does not make its product available to Public Libraries.

Also most libraries make their databases available online.

Posted by: Liam Hegarty | December 7, 2007

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