Trapping Topic-Based Information - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 124

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it will take some time to scroll through all the available
publications and pick out which ones you want, but this time
investment is worth being able to search a very speciic set
of publications. if you don't have the patience or can't get
enough information from the publication names to know
if they are appropriate for your topic, see if you can use the
category listings below the publication listing.

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You can restrict your results by how many pages the article
has. if you're trapping a topic area that might get you a lot
of false positives—say, if you're searching for some aspect of
business and you keep inding announcements about promo-
tions and business moves and such—you might want to set this
to get results of over one page. That way you can avoid all the
roundup articles of Joe smith moving to this company and
Jane doe getting promoted to that ceo job.

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Be sure to set your results so that they sort from newest
to oldest!

Trapping
FindArticles ofers RSS feeds. At the bottom of the search results is the
ubiquitous orange button and a link to an RSS feed.

Possibilities
. FindArticles makes it very easy to search at a detailed level by source
and even by article size. Make the most of these options. Try doing
general searches among a particular set of sources.

Occasionally try searching for premium (paid) content and see what
kind of information you ind.

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Try a few very speciic searches—FindArticles indexes lots of verti-
cal-market publications.

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highBeam Library
HighBeam Library (highbeam.com/library/) is a paid service. You can
search for free—and I recommend you do—so that you get a good sense of
whether HighBeam is useful to you or not. If you want to access full articles,
it is going to cost you. But there is enough here, it is inexpensive enough,
and the trapping options are suiciently broad that I think it's worth it.