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Look's Information Pyramid |
Concepts
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Read the story of the pyramid, an essential
prioritized search strategy in the hunt for relevant information. |
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Person
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People Direct. Use these search tools to look for
ways to interact with people, businesses, agencies
and institutions.
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SUP Database and FAQ. Your hunt might seek interesting questions which different
people have been trying to solve. Try these instead of a cross-word puzzle!
This database is accumulating problems and contributions to their solutions.
Please add your own questions and contributions to this ongoing effort
to link community questions with school-student answering capability.
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Place
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Physical Library Systems (Print/AudioVisual).
Use these links to resources kept on the world's shelves, including paper
and audio-visual technologies. Library card catalogs and article databases
will tell you whether the book or article exists. These systems may lead
you to other online technologies which provide, often for a fee, the full
text of a document. Otherwise these are primarily citation oriented systems.
You must visit the existing library system or use Inter-Library loan to
read the publication.
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Thing
The thing layer provides a strategy for selecting and using a multitude of
search engines to find the complete text of documents, or actual images, videoclips and
sounds, whether for free or for a fee.
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The Shallow or Surface Web
Use these links to reach the public Internet, the resources stored
electronically on the world's public hard drives.
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The Deep Web
Use these links to reach the resources that often require a fee and are behind
passwords, or are in databases which generate their pages dynamically and
therefore cannot index their pages.
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