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HBCU Gateway
Searches
Last updated:
12/29/2007 07:58:26 PM
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Give me a lever long enough and a place to
stand and I will move the earth" Archimedes, 287 - 212 BC |
1. Search
the Websites of all HBCUs simultaneously
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2. Search the Websites of all HBCU Libraries simultaneously
... or
3. Search all Core Sites in
the HBCU network simultaneously
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1. How is the Gateway's search of the Websites of all HBCUs customized?
This form enables its users
to search the Websites of all of the 104 officially designated
HBCUs simultaneously. Searches
also include the Websites of a few organizations that provide
services to the HBCU community. Each of these organizations is
briefly described on the Gateway's Associations page.
In other words, this customized search only returns
links to pages that are on the Websites of the 104 HBCU and on
the Websites of the listed HBCU service organizations. It does
not return links to any other Websites.
For example, if an HBCU administrator
was concerned about "student retention", the Gateway
search would only return links to items about student retention
that were found on other HBCU Websites. If a student was interested
in organizing a Homecoming celebration, the Gateway search would
only return items about Homecomings found on other HBCU Websites.
Faculty members developing grant proposals could quickly identify
potential collaborators at other HBCUs because the Gateway search
would only return references found on other HBCU Websites.
For an explanation of the "Core Sites" search,
please consult to the DLL's Digital Divide Note #4 -- "A
ReferenceRank View of HBCUs" (November 2006) |
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2. How is the Gateway's search of the
Websites of all HBCU libraries customized?
This form enables its users to focus on the Websites of the libraries of all
of the 104 officially designated HBCUs simultaneously. Searches
also include the Websites of an organization that is dedicated to providing
services to the HBCU libraries:
In other words, this customized search only returns
links to pages that are on the Websites of the libraries of the
104 HBCUs and on the Website of the listed service organization.
It does not return links to any other Websites.
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3. Search tips:
a. Users who want to limit their search
to a subset of a group can do so by adding Google's "inurl"
command to the search box.
- To limit the search for "distance
learning" to Web pages at North
Carolina A&T
(ncat.edu), the user would input the following
terms in the search box:
distance learning inurl:ncat.edu
- To search more than one
site, add the boolean "OR" to the list
of "inurl" specifications,
e.g.:
distance learning (inurl:ncat.edu OR
inurl:famu.edu OR inurl:howard.edu
OR inurl:hamptonu.edu)
b. Users who want to exclude some
Website's pages can do so by using Google's negative "minus
sign" boolean operator, e.g.:
- To exclude the Web pages of the libraries of
Howard University (howard.edu/library) and of Hampton University
(hamptonu.edu/universityservices/library) from a search for "distance
learning", a user would input:
distance learning -inurl:howard.edu/library -inurl:hamptonu.edu/universityservices/library
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