| III. References Received by All from All
A. Data
When the reader clicks the following button, Table AA
appears in a pop-up window. This table contains the
the number of references that the Combined Gateway Search returned
when it was asked to search for references to the name of each HBCU
or service organization.
- The first column (from the left) contains
the official name of each HBCU or service organization.
- The second column the actual name that was used in the
search.
- The third column contains the name of the
domain of the HBCU or service organization.
- The fourth column contains the number of references to the name
that was returned by the search.
Ideally, each name would have been searched by placing the following
command into the search box:
"NAME" -inurl:Domain Name
Unfortunately, this straight-forward approach would
have underestimated the number of references in many cases:
- Some "universities" were "colleges" until
recently. Hence a search for "ABC University" will miss
all the Web pages that still refer to "ABC College".
In such cases it would be better to search for ("ABC University")
OR ("ABC College")
- People often refer to the short versions of some
names. Hence a search for "ABC State University" might miss references
to "ABC State".
- Some names have well-known abbreviations. Hence
a search for "Florida A&M University" would miss "FAMU". In this
case, it would be better to search for ("Florida A&M University")
OR ("FAMU")
In order to
accommodate such variations, a search string containing short forms, abbreviations, and wild
card characters was employed wherever appropriate. These special strings appear in the
second
column. If nothing appears in that column, it means that the formal name of
the HBCU or service organization was used.
The table AA contains 109 rows, one for each of the 104
HBCUs, plus one for each of the five HBCU service organizations. The
HBCUs appear first, in alphabetical order; the five service organizations
are found at the bottom of the table. (Note: Selma University
does not have a Website)
B. Comments
- The number of references received ranged from 9 to 510.
- No HBCU or service organization received zero references.
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