Module Five: Search Tools
Become familiar with a variety of Internet Search Tools and their uses
Assignments
Using Internet search engines, compile an annotated bibliography of these topics:
I compiled this bibliography of online resources by conducting searches on Alta Vista, Yahoo, Excite, Hotbot, and InfoSeek. I have followed the MLA bibliographic style, supplemented by Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Resources, by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger. Online gives ways to quote Internet documents following whatever style you have chosen to use, including MLA. Online instructs researchers to cite the URL, followed by the date you accessed the site.
Censorship:
Ockerbloom, John Mark. "Banned Books On-Line" http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/banned-books.html
(March 14, 1998).
This web page is part of the 
.
This site is an exhibit
and discussion of books that have been targets of censorship or
censorship attempts. There are links to the texts of these books. These
include John Cleland's Fanny Hill and D. H. Lawrence's Lady
Chatterley's Lover.
Finding the site: I entered the term "censorship" in Excite and chose "Books & Literature: Censorship", then "Censorship", then "Banned Books Online", which led me to this page.
Band, Jonathan and John Kennedy. "Battle Lines Form Over WIPO Copyright Bills" http://www.ljx.com/copyright/0126wipo.html (March 14, 1998).
This article relates arguments about interpretations of the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) Copyright Treaty that have been taking place in US Congress.
Finding the site: In Excite, I entered the search "world intellectual property organization" and found the link "Legal Links: Intellectual Property Law", which led me to the link "New York Law Journal - Intellectual Property" and I chose the option "Copyright Law", which led me to this article.
Davies, Simon. "Time for a Byte of Privacy Please." http://www.oneworld.org/index_oc/issue697/davies.html (13 March, 1998).
Davies' article documents the negative impact of technology on the right to privacy of individuals, and the fact that governmental and social attitudes towards privacy must change if we are to preserve a civilized society.
Finding the site: I found this article because it was a prevalent link on the Privacy International homepage, which is cited next.
Privacy International. http://www.privacy.org/pi/ 13 March, 1998.
This link will take you to the Privacy International homepage. Privacy International is a human rights group, based in London, England, which campaigns against government agencies all over the world that use technology to invade people's privacy.
Finding the site: I found this web page by conducting a search on Alta Vista. I simply searched the word "privacy," and this web page was one of the top five hits.
In this article, McCarthy documents the "nine basic threats to web security" and suggests ways to deal with these threats.
Links: I went intoYahoo, clicked on the "options" link beside the search interface, and then chose the "matches on all words" option, which allows you to combine terms to perform a Boolean search. I entered the search "Canada and Internet and Security" and chose the link to the CSCI (Computer Security Canada Inc.) homepage, then chose the link "Governments," which led to another list of links. I chose the link "Relevant Internet Sites and Newsgroups," which led me to a list of links that included the title of McCarthy's article.
Netsurfer Focus on Computer and Network Security 1:1 (1995) http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/v01/01/nsf.01.01.html#sc2 March 13, 1998.
This URL will lead you to the table of contents of a list of short articles about web security issues that should concern all Internet surfers.
Finding the site: In Yahoo, I did a Boolean search of "Internet and Security and Canada" and followed the following links: "Regional: Countries: Canada: Computers and Internet: Security and Encryption," "TimeStep - Network Security," "Resource Center [a choice provided on the left-hand column of this page]," "Cool Links for Network Security Information," "Netsurfer Focus - Security," "Electronic Magazines and Newsletters," which led me to a list of publications, including, the link "Netsurfer Focus," which I chose. Then I chose the final link "Netsurfer Focus on Computer and Network Security."
This URL leads to Communtication News magazine's comprehensive Table of Contents, which provides links to articles and advertisements about a wide variety of electronic communications issues and products.
Links: I found this site by using the Boolean Search option in the search engine Hotbot. I entered "electronic communications and articles not marketing". I chose the link labeled, "Communications News Home Page", then "Communication News," which led me to this site.
This site provides a list of links to articles about time management. They cover the personal experiences and time management plans of small business people and CEOs of multinational companies.
Finding this site: I found this site through the search engine InfoSeek by entering the search "time management." This site was one of the top five hits.
Back to Portfolio Index
Top of this Page
To Module Six