Searching Beyond the Web



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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Searching Beyond the Web While the World Wide Web offers an incredible array of resources, there are some Internet resources beyond the Web that can add other layers of information. Gophers were text-based research tools that flourished before the development of the web. While many gophers have been abandoned or fallen into disrepair, a few are still viable research tools. (optional activity) Usenet or Newsgroups date back to the earliest days of the Internet and contain a world of information from the communication corner of the Internet. Specialized search engines like Google's Groups Search can ferret out ongoing discussions on every topic imaginable. Listserve/Mailing Lists offer the same array of ongoing e-mail based discussion groups. Directories of all known listserve/mailing lists can give you the information you will need to join these discussions. FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions) have been collected on many topics of interest to web researchers. Believe it or not, many of your questions have been asked before. Using a specialized FAQ search engine will locate those archived FAQ’s and allow you share the combined knowledge of those who have asked and answered the same questions earlier. The Invisible Web - There are thousands of web databases that are not typically indexed by the popular search engines. Specialized Invisible Web search engines allow you to explore these resources. Searching Beyond the Web Explore the Searching Beyond the Web links to gophers, Newsgroups, Listserve and FAQ’s. Record your observations in your digital logbook and bookmark appropriate resources that you find. Note: You can bookmark gophersites and FAQ files just like regular webpages. Send me an e-mail message. Share your observations about searching beyond the web. continue

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Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Jan. 1, 2002 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.



instructor \| listserve \| web board \| project archives \| toolkit

	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Searching Beyond the Web While the World Wide Web offers an incredible array of resources, there are some Internet resources beyond the Web that can add other layers of information. Gophers were text-based research tools that flourished before the development of the web. While many gophers have been abandoned or fallen into disrepair, a few are still viable research tools. (optional activity) Usenet or Newsgroups date back to the earliest days of the Internet and contain a world of information from the communication corner of the Internet. Specialized search engines like Google's Groups Search can ferret out ongoing discussions on every topic imaginable. Listserve/Mailing Lists offer the same array of ongoing e-mail based discussion groups. Directories of all known listserve/mailing lists can give you the information you will need to join these discussions. FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions) have been collected on many topics of interest to web researchers. Believe it or not, many of your questions have been asked before. Using a specialized FAQ search engine will locate those archived FAQ’s and allow you share the combined knowledge of those who have asked and answered the same questions earlier. The Invisible Web - There are thousands of web databases that are not typically indexed by the popular search engines. Specialized Invisible Web search engines allow you to explore these resources. Searching Beyond the Web Explore the Searching Beyond the Web links to gophers, Newsgroups, Listserve and FAQ’s. Record your observations in your digital logbook and bookmark appropriate resources that you find. Note: You can bookmark gophersites and FAQ files just like regular webpages. Send me an e-mail message. Share your observations about searching beyond the web. continue

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Jan. 1, 2002 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.