How to Effectively Use the Internet for ResearchWritten by Kate Smalley
How to Effectively Use Internet for ResearchThe Internet offers instant access to millions of documents on countless topics. It consists of a variety of access protocols that include e-mail, FTP, HTTP, Telnet and Usenet news. Many of these protocols feature programs that allow users to search for and retrieve material made available by protocol. One of most efficient methods of conducting research on Internet is to use World Wide Web. Some of most effective ways to tap into this resource include visiting individual Websites, exploring subject directories and using search engines. Individual Websites If you know Internet address of a site you want to visit, you can use a Web browser, such as Internet Explorer, to access site directly. Just type Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Web address into your browser window to pull up site. If you don’t know address, make an educated guess. Web addresses of companies are often formatted as www.companyname.com (e.g., www.microsoft.com). University web addresses are typically formatted as www.universityname or acronym.edu (e.g., www.ilstu.edu or www.iwu.edu). Likewise, government agency addresses are typically formatted as www.agency name acronym.gov (e.g., www.hud.gov or www.doj.gov). Subject Directories Increasingly, universities, libraries, companies, organizations, and even volunteers are creating subject directories to catalog parts of Internet. Directories are organized by topic and consist of links to Internet resources relating to a wide variety of areas. They are useful for researching general subjects, topics that need exploring, and for browsing. To get an idea of range of directories available on Web, start with Internet Subject Directories (http://library.albany.edu/internet/subject.html). You can also explore popular private directories like Yahoo, The Open Directory Project and Looksmart. If you need scholarly material, try: •The Librarians' Index: (www.liii.org) — This is a great way to explore a large number and variety of sources. Supported by a federal grant, this directory is result of a large number of Californian librarians selecting and annotating Web resources across a broad range of topics. •The WWW Virtual Library: (www.vlib.org) — One of oldest and most respected subject directories on Web, this directory consists of individual subject collections, many of which are maintained at universities throughout world. •INFOMINE (www.infomine.ucr.edu) — A large directory of Web sites of scholarly interest compiled by University of California, this resource can be browsed or searched by subject, keyword, or title. Each site listed is accompanied by a description.
| | Importance Of INTERNETWritten by Waseem Hyder
SENSE OF EMPOWERMENT Shorts for inter network. A set of computer networks that may be dissimilar and are joined together by means of gateways that handle data transfer and conversion of messages from sending networks’ protocols to those of receiving network. The genesis of Internet was a decentralized network called ARPANET created by U.S. Department of Defense in 1969 to facilitate communications in event of a nuclear attack. Currently Internet offers a range of services to users, such as e-mail, World Wide Web, Usenet news, telnet, and others. Information research is a dedication to learning. This needs specific research skills, an awareness of research tools and gifted mind. Without knowledge of and access to relevant research worthy resources, your search will be severely limited and doubtful. Internet is only vast field of exploring which provide us source of research tools. If we give a name explorer to Internet that wouldn’t be wrong, in a sense that explorer itself means to inquire something or to examine something. Internet is widely used in field where there is a work of research. Internet is not minimize to this field only, it also provide us best source of entertainment. Internet had changed our lives in many ways, it had change way we communicate. It had galvanized or we can say demoralize postal services. However in process, it had given us tremendous sense of empowerment. And it is beauty of Internet that every web user has now become a potential publisher. At one level internet is identified with triviality and mediocrity, while at other it is best thing that have happened to mankind after invention of wheel. The most important manifestation about Internet’s revolution was its impact on communication. The days of snail-mail looked numbered, moment Internet arrived on scene. Since E-mail was accurate, reliable and convenient, it became house hold phenomena. Besides proving its utility as an effective communication tool, e-mail has also come of age as an interactive communication tool. Group users and Newsletters have now become a mean of getting one’s point of view across other person or group of people. Over Internet we deal with all aspects of data authentication, privacy, integrity, and verification for transactions. For example, credit card purchases via a World Wide Web browser require attention to Internet security issues. To ensure that credit card number is not intercepted by an intruder or copied from server where number is stored, and to verify that credit card number is actually sent by person who claims to be sending it. Internet Security and Acceleration Server software, (application from Microsoft Corporation) to increase security and performance of Internet access for businesses. Internet Security and Acceleration Server provides an enterprise firewall and high-performance Web cache server to securely manage flow of information from Internet.
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