Review
Extremely up-to-date, including tips on how to search not only authoritative sources but also how to sift through social media with their various degrees of trustworthiness. Markey’s new edition teaches us how to approach reliable information as well as how to handle the fake news epidemic. -- Hermina Anghelescu, Professor & Interim Director, School of Information Sciences, Wayne State University
Markey’s clearly written and well-organized handbook pairs practical tactics with theoretical depth. The second edition of Online Searching is an excellent graduate-level textbook that will continue to be helpful to budding search experts once they enter professional practice. -- Cheryl Knott, Professor, School of Information, University of Arizona
Online Searching, Second Edition is more than just a basic text for how to search online; it should be in the toolbox of every researcher, from journalist to scholar, everyday person to president. The compelling nature of Markey’s work is matched only by the comprehensiveness of her knowledge of all things to do with subject-related searching, the result of decades of tried and true research, now passed on to the next generations in clear, logical explanations and illustrations. -- Shawne D. Miksa, Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas
Whether you are an LIS instructor or student, or a practicing librarian, the second edition of Online Searching offers a comprehensive and timely guide and a peek under the hood of a shifting and exciting information landscape. -- Joyce Valenza, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
In this second edition of Online Searching, Markey (Univ. of Michigan) provides a welcome update to her comprehensive, highly organized guide. As in the first edition, the current work provides a general introduction to searching for materials online, then guides readers through the most effective methods for using online resources to assist library patrons, including the reference interview, choosing appropriate databases, using controlled vocabulary and Boolean operators, finding effective strategies to refine results, and many other valuable bits of advice and guidance. Added to the second edition are timely topics such as social media, fake news, the use of DOI (digital object identifier) and ORCID (open researcher and contributor ID) to find specific items, and increased coverage of “everything" search systems. The new edition ensures the continued relevance and currency of Markey's outstanding work. ― Choice Reviews
About the Author
Karen Markey is professor emerita in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her experience with online searching began with the earliest commercial systems, DIALOG, Orbit, and BRS, the first end-user systems, CD-ROMs and online catalogs, and includes today’s open web search engines and proprietary systems for accessing databases of bibliographic records, abstracting & indexing entries, full texts, numeric data, and multimedia. Since joining the faculty at Michigan in 1987, she has taught online searching to thousands of students in her school’s library and information science (LIS) program. Her research has been supported by the Council on Library Resources, Delmas Foundation (DF), Department of Education (DoED), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), National Science Foundation (NSF), and OCLC. She is the author of six books, more than a dozen major research reports, and over one hundred journal articles and conference proceedings papers.
