May 1996
Newsletter #26
 

Science Library Renovations Completed

Gutenberg and Beyond: An Exhibit

Purchase Request Form on the Web

Budget Squeezed by Journal Prices

Finding the Needle in the World Wide Web Haystack

At Your Fingertips

Finding Financial Statistics

Reserve to Deliver Personal Copies

Researve Deadlines

FLL and A-VLRC Cooperate on Classroom Technology

Cataloging Project Increases
Awareness of Government
Publications

Selecting and Cataloging Electronic Resources

New Specialized Encyclopedias in Reference

Associates Support Library's Future

The searching tools listed below allow you to search for specific topics on the World Wide Web7. There is no one perfect searching tool - each will retrieve different sites. For best results, use more than one. This selection of searching tools is arranged in order of staff preference (ease of use, number of relevant sites). Information about the number of sites indexed, boolean operators, case-sensitivity, and truncation symbols is included. Consult the HELP screens of each search engine or ask at the Reference Desk for further assistance. To use any of these searching tools, go to the URL listed, or select "Internet Searching Tools" from the Library's homepage (http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu).

YAHOO! (http://www.yahoo.com/) 

* A hierarchical directory arranged by subject 
* Searches a number of URLs, Usenets, and e-mail addresses 
* Default boolean operator: and Other boolean options: or 
* Not case sensitive 
* Truncation symbol: *

INFOSEEK GUIDE (http://guide.infoseek.com/)
* Searches over 1 million "selected sites," URLs, and Usenets
* Default oolean operator: and Other boolean options: or, near, not 
* Case sensitive 

ALTA VISTA (http://www.altavista.com/)
* Searches over 22 million URLs and Usenets 
* Default boolean operator: or Other boolean options: and, not, near 
* Case sensitive 
* Truncation symbol: *

OPEN TEXT (http://www.opentext.com)
* Searches over 1.5 million URLs 
* Default boolean operator: and Other boolean options: or, but not, near,followed by 
* Not case sensitive 

LYCOS (http://www.lycos.com/) 
* Searches over 10 million URLs 
* Default boolean operator: or Other boolean options: and, match # terms, loose match 
* Case sensitive 

MAGELLAN (http://www.mckinley.com/)
* Searches over 1.5 million URLs and Usenets 
* Default boolean operator: or Other boolean options: and, not, near 
* Not case sensitive 
* Truncation symbol: +

EXCITE (http://www.excite.com/) 
* Searches over 11.5 million URLs and Usenets 
* Default boolean operator: and/or combination Other boolean options: and, or, not 
* Truncation symbol: * 

SAVVY SEARCH (http://http://www.savvysearch.com/) 
* Searches a number of Internet searching tools, over 20 million URLs 
* Not case sensitive 

There are more search engines. Many of these are listed in Yahoo! under the heading "Computers and the Internet: World Wide Web."