Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research

by Tara Calishain

A practical guide to accessing, organizing, citing, and posting information on the Internet, with timesaving techniques for finding the most recent data. Overviews the Internet, Internet tools, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566048451
• ISBN13: 9781566048453
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent as a reference for Super Web Searchers

If you wish to learn to search the easy way (not trial and error like I did), buy this book and Secrets of the Super Net Searchers, as well as the Alta Vista guide. You will not be disappointed - the time you will save is well worth the price.

Readers Are Encouraged To Become Researchers & Readers!

     The Internet has become a vast depository of information providing an extremely broad variety for just about every imaginable need. The amount grows daily. There is information online for business professionals, tradesmen, technicians, engineers, educators, researchers, students, companies, as well as for the average person on the street. Finding the right information in a timely and proficient requires a disciplined approach.      Tara Calishain and Jill Alane Nystrom have written Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research to provide an extensive collection of essential online research tools and instructions on how best to use them. They also offer basic instruction in the use of the Netscape browser and a number of plug-ins and offer plenty of help putting them to effective use to intelligently find information online.      This research reference guide is thoughtfully written and easy to navigate. The Websites featured are among the best resources available. Readers can access them to seek employment, to obtain business information, to keep in touch with local, state, and federal governments, to get the latest consumer reports, to tap into the rich resources offered by leading magazines and newspapers, and much much more!      Especially helpful to readers are the many tips and advice that grace the book. They offer additional help to make researching easier. For instance, readers are encouraged to cultivate friends, to employ time-saving steps, and to consider their needs carefully before paying to use fee-based databases. They are encourage to become skilled at researching, reading, and putting information to use. Good advice considering today's economy!      The authors demonstrate genuine appreciation for the wealth of information online, the means to obtain it, and desire to instruct their readers to effectively harness them to meet their own needs. Regardless of the browser and kind of computer one has this book will make online information gathering an easier and more enjoyable task to accomplish. Highly recommended!

This is a cool book - buy it

There are lots of books out there about Internet research, but this is hands down one of the very best.The book is targeted at beginning and intermediate-level Internet users, but users of all abilities should find it extremely useful. I like to consider myself a fairly experienced Internet researcher, but by the time I finished the book a forest of Post-It notes had sprouted from pages that listed sites or techniques that I wanted to try.To top it off, the book is written in a lively style. When was the last time someone said that about a computer book? Bruce Maxwell - Author, "How to Find Health Information on the Internet"

The definitive guide to Internet Research using Netscape

This book is a librarian's dream (I should know I'm a librarian). In 25 well-written and illustrated chapters, Tara Calishain and Jill Alane Nystrom, Cyber-goddesses who have written other well-received Netscape-related books, have given us an easy-to-understand roadmap for navigating the Information Superhighway. They tell us the best routes to go, and even how to read the roadsigns. They, also, tell us how to navigate our own Netscape Browsers for both the Windows or MacIntoshs. Have you ever wondered what to do with "Helper Applications", "Plug-ins", or "Caches?" This book will, in simple language, explain it all to you. The book gets into the different aspects of the Internet, such as using mailing lists, newsgroups, gophers, telnet, Push Technology, and the many wonders of the World Wide Web.I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in making the most use of your Netscape Browser.To keep people up-to-date on the what's happening on the Internet, Tara has created a wonderful webpage.

This is an excellent text for Internet instructors.

Since I am teaching 5 classes totally via the Internet, I am always on the lookout for appropriate texts for my online classes. This book is extremely well written, highly organized, and obviously well thought out and researched. The author shows her talent not only for high-level professional writing, but for her obviously excellent research skills. She also knows how to portray that information in a way that is easily understandable and wonderful to use as a teaching tool. I am thrilled that writers of this calibre are "out there" and sharing very valuable information with a public who is crying out for more efficient ways to navigate the Net. My hat is off to this author and to Ventana for publishing this genre of book! Many, many "instructor-felt" thanks