musings for speech 111

online research exploration

Three subjects I chose for research are: Nebraska groundwater, cruise ships, and volunteer ems. I searched the groundwater subject in the magazine database (Wilson) and received only 1 result that did not apply, this article was about surface runoff and leaching nitrogen. I then run the business info database and received 4 results that also did not apply, and were somewhat old,(1999-2003). Next, I ran the magazine eLibrary database and received several good results that I would be looking for. These are some of the links: http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/elib/do/document?set=search&groupid=1&requestid=lib_standard&resultid=1&edition=&ts=7876818ABAB67FF2BF2E8FA80AC4AFE6_1140193096423&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B116674197

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthgwquality.html

http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/elib/do/document?set=search&groupid=1&requestid=lib_standard&resultid=5&edition=&ts=7876818ABAB67FF2BF2E8FA80AC4AFE6_1140194206853&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B117854087

Next, I ran volunteer ems through the Magazine(Wilson) database and received no results, then through the Books database, and received ok results, then through the Kiplinger database with no results. When I used eLibrary database I received good results. Two examples are:
http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/elib/do/document?set=search&groupid=1&requestid=lib_standard&resultid=3&edition=&ts=7876818ABAB67FF2BF2E8FA80AC4AFE6_1140195302959&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B29026223

http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/elib/do/document?set=search&groupid=1&requestid=lib_standard&resultid=7&edition=&ts=7876818ABAB67FF2BF2E8FA80AC4AFE6_1140195302959&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B75310029

When I used the google news and google uncle sam searches on my subjects I had many options to pick from, for example, volunteer ems on uncle sam had 170,000 results, and cruise ships on uncle sam had 297,000 results. If and when I do research, I will have to narrow down my subject drastically. I also ran volunteer ems through the google blog ssearch and became distracted for an hour or so reading misc. blogs. I also found a local blog here, I think it originated from York, Ne.

I had the best results with the FirstSearch database with my subjects, and will be most likely to use that for research. During my last class, English comp, last semester, that instructor also introduced us to Nebraska access, and I did not have much luck with the Wilson magazine database for the subjects I chose at that time.

posted by kevin @ 9:29 AM