Official Netscape Guide To Internet Research

The author shows users how to maximize the Internet--using its vast, up-to-the-minute, multimedia research capabilities. This practical, easy-to-follow guide teaches readers online reading and searching skills, so they can find the information they want in the easiest, fastest and most efficient way.

This guide offers professional techniques for accomplishing extensive Internet research projects. It provides expert tips for archiving, storing, and citing information in research papers and takes a look at privacy and security concerns. Readers learn how to remove themselves from address lists, locate people online, protect personal information, and use digital certificates.

This guide to the Internet has been revised to reflect the latestevelopments in Web technology and to bring readers up-to-date on techniquesor hunting down information in cyberspace. Rather than focusing ononnection and navigation, the book explains how to research specific subjectreas.;Providing information on using browsers, Newsgroups and Listservs, itovers researching for general, corporate, small business, finance, law,ournalism, academic, literature and the social and hard sciences. Individualhapters for national, big city and regional reporters are included, as wells detailed sections on specialized research, libraries, newspaper archives,aps and e-mail.

Written by a professor of computer science and a reference librarian, this guide covers basic browser usage, e-mail, and discussion groups; discusses such Internet staples as FTP and Usenet newsgroups; presents and compares numerous search engines; and includes models for acquiring, evaluating, and citing resources within the context of a research project. The emphasis of the book is on learning how to create search strategies and search expressions, how to evaluate information critically, and how to cite resources. All of these skills are presented as within the context of step-by-step activities designed to teach basic Internet research skills to the beginner and to hone the skills of the seasoned practitioner.

Shows how Netscape handles e-mail, file transfers, and newsgroups

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