11. Looking for documents?
SlideShare: presentations
Docstoc: Office, PDF, Open Office, Text documents
Use filetype: filter in broad-based search engines
24. Where?
A good place to start:
www.searchengineguide.com/pages/Regional/
Try the regional: filter in Yahoo!
Advanced Search module of broad-based search
engines
28. A few examples
Scientific: ScienceDirect, Scitopia.org
Academic: Google Scholar
Finance: Google or Yahoo! Finance
Markets: Forrester
29. Where?
www.altsearchengines.com/category/verticals/
A good place to start though not categorized
Use keywords like ‘search’, ‘databases’, ‘search
engine’... preceded by a topical keyword
Browse directories like the Librarian’s Internet Index
Online College Blog
Interesting list of resources to access the Deep Web
though some are not up-to-date
39. To take part in this collaborative index
Import bookmarks from your browser
Use the Knowledge Plaza browser bookmarklet
Make results always more exhaustive and qualitative
40. To search vertically in Knowledge Plaza
Browse within the Plaza to locate a user or a
workspace and use it as a search engine
Jump to the Web module to get the full picture: select
a few tags, a particular user and/or a whole
workspace, and launch your query
Results are more reliable because of human selection