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  2. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    A gateway to results of DOE research and development and major R&D accomplishments of interest to DOE. Not working from 2014 Free DOE: Sparrho: Multidisciplinary: Research articles and patents from 45k+ journals and preprint servers. Uses content recommendation concept. Subscription Distylled Ltd.

  3. Information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    Emanuel Goldberg submits patents for his "Statistical Machine", a document search engine that used photoelectric cells and pattern recognition to search the metadata on rolls of microfilmed documents. 1940s–1950s late 1940s: The US military confronted problems of indexing and retrieval of wartime scientific research documents captured from ...

  4. Information seeking - Wikipedia

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    Yet, internet search engines are built on IR principles. Since the late 1990s a body of research on how casual users interact with internet search engines has been forming, but the topic is far from fully understood. IR can be said to be technology-oriented, focusing on algorithms and issues such as precision and recall. Information seeking may ...

  5. Pathfinder (library science) - Wikipedia

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    Jackson rejected the bibliographic format in 1984, arguing that search strategies should be taught in a pathfinder. [13] In 2012, a study on mental models of research guides showed that students preferred guides which were format-agnostic rather than grouped by format type. [8]

  6. Online research methods - Wikipedia

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    They are also referred to as Internet research, [1] Internet science [2] or iScience, or Web-based methods. [3] Many of these online research methods are related to existing research methodologies but re-invent and re-imagine them in the light of new technologies and conditions associated with the internet. The field is relatively new and evolving.

  7. Concept search - Wikipedia

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    A concept search (or conceptual search) is an automated information retrieval method that is used to search electronically stored unstructured text (for example, digital archives, email, scientific literature, etc.) for information that is conceptually similar to the information provided in a search query.

  8. Internet research - Wikipedia

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    Common applications of Internet research include personal research on a particular subject (something mentioned on the news, a health problem, etc.), students doing research for academic projects and papers, and journalists and other writers researching stories. Research is a broad term. Here, it is used to mean "looking something up (on the Web)".

  9. Contextual searching - Wikipedia

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    Contextual search is a form of optimizing web-based search results based on context provided by the user and the computer being used to enter the query. [1] Contextual search services differ from current search engines based on traditional information retrieval that return lists of documents based on their relevance to the query.