17 The Mystery of the Parrotfish, or Where Does That White Sand Really Come From? How to Triangulate Multiple Sources to Find a Definitive Answer

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: How You Can Harness the Power of Online Research-Why You Should Improve Your Online Researching Skills; How to Read This Book; How to Do It; 2 Finding a Mysterious Location Somewhere in the World: How to Use Multiple Information Sources to Zero In on a Resource; Research Lessons; How to Do It; Try This Yourself; 3 Do Lakes in Africa Sometimes Explode? How to Focus Your Search with "site:" and Using Specialized Terms; Research Lessons; How to Do It; Try This Yourself

4 Things You Notice While Traveling: How and When to Switch Search Modes to Find InformationResearch Lessons; How to Do It; Try This Yourself; 5 Is That Plant Poisonous or Not? How to Find Highly Localized and Domain-Specific Information; Research Lessons; Try This Yourself; 6 What's the Most Likely Way You'll Die? How to Be Explicit about What You're Searching to Find (and Why That Matters); Research Lessons; How to Do It; Try This Yourself; 7 When Would You Want to Read the Italian Wikipedia? How to Look for Information from Other Languages in Wikipedia and Other Sources

Why You Might Want to Read the Italian WikipediaA Tool for Comparison; What Links Here; Research Lessons; Try This Yourself; 8 Why Are the Coasts So Different? How to Use Online Maps Resources to Answer Broad Geographic Questions; Research Lessons; Try This Yourself; 9 Mysterious Mission Stars: How to Read Snippets in the Search Results and Pay Attention to Search Details; Research Lessons; How to Do It; Try This Yourself; 10 When Was Oil First Discovered in California? How to Discover and Work Through Multiple Competing Claims in Online Resources; Research Lessons; How to Do It

Try This Yourself11 Can You Die from Apoplexy or Rose Catarrh? How to Find (and Use) Old, Sometimes-Archaic or Obsolete Terminology; Research Lessons; Try This Yourself; 12 What's That Wreck Just Offshore? How to Find Archival Imagery and Use Metadata from Photographs; Research Lessons; How to Do It; Try This Yourself; 13 Do Flies Have the Pattern of a Spider on Their Wings? How to Check the Credibility of a Resource You've Found; Research Lessons; How to Do It; Try This Yourself

14 What's the Connection between "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the General Who Burned the White House? How to Search for Vaguely Remembered Connections between IdeasHow to Find Serendipity While Avoiding the Rathole; Research Lessons; How to Do It; Try This Yourself; 15 What Causes the Barren Zones around Some Plants? How to Know When You Should Go Offline and Do Research in the Real World; Research Lessons; Try This Yourself; 16 Is Abyssinia the Same as Eritrea? How to Find Additional Context Information for Your Research; Research Lessons; How to Do It; Try This Yourself

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How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, ""Is that plant poisonous?"").

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Mode of access: World Wide Web

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