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Summary: The Best Guidebook for Online Research
Review: (From The Information Advisor, July, 1998) Editor, Robert Berkman:This superb book, just published this month, is in our opinion currently the guide for effective searching online and the Net for beginners and advanced researchers alike-which is a pretty neat trick unto itself. Although really geared for the novice searcher, Basch has covered everything any searcher would need to know about conducting online research, from creating a research inquiry to choosing a database or Net search engine to evaluating the information. The scope is truly comprehensive, the advice unimpeachable, and the writing crystal clear and accessible and understandable for all. The professional searcher will find it useful because it pulls all of the current wisdom about searching in one place and covers so many online and Internet sources. Researching Online for Dummies is an absolute must for every information professional and researcher.
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Summary: Simple and quick information, very helpful
Review: A simple and quick guide to exploring items on the internet. Helpful for very specific topics. Global issues, true research items and expansive topics, while somewhat covered, still leave you wondering whether there might be other sites out there. A first time surfer should buy this book. Experienced surfers don't need it.
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Summary: FROM A ROOKIE'S PERSEPCTIVE
Review: As a novice web surfer, Resaerching Online for Dummies (like me) by Revea Basch and Mary Ellen Bates was just what the doctor ordered. From the world behind the web to thinking and working like a researcher, Basch has provided the basic information necessary for understanding what the web is and what it does and does not do. Before reading this book I thought a search engine was something a mechanic used to find the infamous "clunk" noise no one at the car dealership can hear. However, it wasn't long before I found my self saying things like "maybe I should try excite." Or, "I bet I can use GO to get what I need." Is this OK to post in public? But, by the time I read the chapter on specialty search engines I felt like I was cruising the inormation superhighway like no one had ever done before. Dot com this and dot com that. As I continued through the text I did find myself becoming a little annoyed at the pejorative nature of the writing. I guess that's why the title is Researching Online for "Dummies." This minor distraction aside, Basch has done an excellent job of making sense of this hypertechnical computer lingo. One thing is for sure. "I won't leave my home page without it."
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Summary: The best online reference for new or seasoned researchers
Review: I've been researching online since 1994 and I found something that I didn't know on almost every page of this book. It is informative enough to keep a seasoned researcher entertained but simple to use for a first time web searcher. I may have to have my copy hard bound somewhere to keep it from falling apart through overuse.
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Summary: The best online reference for new or seasoned researchers
Review: I've been researching online since 1994 and I found something that I didn't know on almost every page of this book. It is informative enough to keep a seasoned researcher entertained but simple to use for a first time web searcher. I may have to have my copy hard bound somewhere to keep it from falling apart through overuse.
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Summary: A must-have and handy reference for all regardless skill lvl
Review: Readable, entertaining, informative, and valuable. What more can you ask from any book? Unskilled researchers wanting to learn something from the subject will find an excellent overview of the necessary skills, tools, and resources, an online researcher needs. Skilled searchers will find a handy reference containing thought provoking ideas. The only problem with the book is due to the etheral nature of the Internet...several examples in the book no longer work as described. Newbies may become disconcerted when following along and finding invalid sites or differences between what the book shows and says and what is experienced on the "real" (?!) internet. To her credit, the author gives ample warning that this may happen. It is the only book of its type that I keep within arm's reach.
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Summary: A veteran online researcher shows you how it's REALLY done.
Review: Researching Online For Dummies DOESN'T hand you a line like "you can find anything on the Web; it's easy, and it's free" -- and then send you out on your own to discover that it just ain't so. Researching Online For Dummies DOES give you hundreds of practical tips on useful sites, search engines, and databases, both on and off the Web. It shows you how to find and use specialized search engines and subject guides, electronic library catalogs and collections, reference books, newsgroups, newspapers and magazines, and high-powered online services such as Dow Jones Interactive, Lexis-Nexis, and Dialog. It also deals with the big issues -- copyright, information quality, and staying current. ROFD covers just about every subject you might want to research -- marketing, competitive intelligence, investments, politics and current events, government information, health, scientific and engineering topics, patents, and much more. On the CD, you'll find two bonus chapters -- one on researching practical matters such as finding a job, buying a car, or choosing a college, and another on researching your own hobbies and interests. The real strength of the book, though, is that it shows you how to think like a researcher -- to set goals, determine your strategy, and discover not only the resources I tell you about, but excellent new ones of your own.
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Summary: Informative, funny, and oh so USEFUL!!!
Review: This book is a treasure. Reva Basch not only knows how to research online, she knows how people think, and how they frame questions. By definition, anyone who can read this review on amazon.com should own this book!!
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Summary: A must-have and handy reference for all regardless skill lvl
Review: This is a must-have reference guide, even for seasoned on-line researchers. I keep it on my desk all the time.
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Summary: Don't go online without it!
Review: This is a must-have reference guide, even for seasoned on-line researchers. I keep it on my desk all the time.
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