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Fagan, Jody Condit – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011
Today's scholars face an outstanding array of choices when choosing search tools: Google Scholar, discipline-specific abstracts and index databases, library discovery tools, and more recently, Microsoft's re-launch of their academic search tool, now dubbed Microsoft Academic Search. What are these tools' strengths for the emerging needs of…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Search Engines, Databases, Online Searching
Craig, Cindy L.; Friehs, Curt G. – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2013
This study compared two common types of online information literacy tutorials: a streaming media tutorial using animation and narration and a text-based tutorial with static images. Nine sections of an undergraduate biology lab class (234 students total) were instructed by a librarian on how to use the BIOSIS Previews database. Three sections…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Online Searching, Animation, Comparative Analysis
Porter, Brandi – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011
This article summarizes the author's dissertation regarding search strategies of millennial undergraduate students in Web and library online information retrieval systems. Millennials bring a unique set of search characteristics and strategies to their research since they have never known a world without the Web. Through the use of search engines,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Methodology, Search Engines, Engines