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Good Morning! LIS1001 Information and Technology for Searching May 2017, Ulrich Werner, Lecturer

So, did you cry for the poor tree octopus?

“If you can get something just by opening a book, it is not worth spending classroom time on.” (AtipongPathanasethpong , Bangkok Post, 6 October 2014) That’s true for Google, too.

BBC News, 20.03.2003 CNN 2002 Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix

Search for evidence Example: Mars robots

The fundamental units of matter What is that? What can you say about it?

3 examples of Wikipedia information

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikhs Creative Commons Unported Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe_people

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light Creative Commons Unported Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0

Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) Google Scholar: Stand on the shoulder of giants

Information in a Scholar Result Can you find where it tells you: 1) The title 2) The authors' names? 3) When and where it was published? 4) Information from the text of the article (snippet)? 5) Which other articles cite this one? 6) What other articles exist on similar topics? 7) What pay-for-access sources offer it? 8) A list of all the places Google has found it online? 9) A free source through which you have access?

Information in a Scholar Result 1 3 2 9 4 5 6 7 8 Can you find where it tells you: 1) The title 2) The authors' names? 3) When and where it was published? 4) Information from the text of the article (snippet)? 5) Which other articles cite this one? 6) What other articles exist on similar topics? 7) What pay-for-access sources offer it? 8) A list of all the places Google has found it online? 9) A free source (when available)?

Legendarily decorated by Merlin with pieces from the "Giant's Ring“, is there moss on all sides of these stones? Can you find it?

Legendarily decorated by Merlin with pieces from the "Giant's Ring“, is there moss on all sides of these stones? Can you find it?

Easy. Try Google Street View. They took it with a bicycle.

Evaluate the credibility of sources I trust that you know how to do it.

Example In this article, I will explain how people can get taller. There are many short people who have been told by their doctors that they have completed their growth spurt years and that they no longer will continue to achieve additional height. These doctors certainly have misinformed their patients, and as a result have discouraged them. Instead, they should tell them that if patients were to hang upside down for 10 minutes every 4 hours, they will stretch their spinal columns. If these short people follow this routine for one full month, they can increase their height two full inches and stand shoulder to shoulder with peers their age. The medical research about spinal stretching spans many decades and have been attributed to the success of many basketball players who sought to increase their height beginning in their middle school years.

Time for a break 