Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.

As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

The acronym "SEO" can also refer to "search engine optimizers," a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development anddesign. The term "search engine friendly" may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems, images, videos, shopping carts, and other elements that have been optimized for the purpose of search engine exposure.

Another class of techniques, known as black hat SEO or Spamdexing, use methods such as link farms, keyword stuffing and article spinning that degrade both the relevance of search results and the user-experience of search engines. Search engines look for sites that employ these techniques in order to remove them from their indices.

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Electronic journals

Electronic journals, are scholarly journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. In practice, this means that they are usually published on the Web. They are a specialized form of electronic document: they have the purpose of providing material for academicresearch and study, and they are formatted approximately like journal articles in traditional printed journals. Being in electronic form, articles usually contain metadata that can be entered into specialized databases, such as DOAJ or OACI, as well as the databases and search-engines for the academic discipline concerned.

Some electronic journals are online-only journals; some are online versions of printed journals, and some consist of the online equivalent of a printed journal, but with additional online-only sometimes video and interactive media material.

Most commercial journals are subscription-based, or allow pay-per-view access. Many universities subscribe in bulk to packages of electronic journals, so as to provide access to them to their students and faculty. It is generally also possible for individuals to purchase an annual subscription to a journal, via the original publisher.

An increasing number of journals are now available as online open access journals, requiring no subscription and offering free full-text articles and reviews to all.Individual articles from electronic journals will also be found online for free in an ad-hoc manner: in working paper archives; on personal homepages; and in the collections held ininstitutional repositories and subject repositories. Some commercial journals do find ways to offer free materials. They may offer their initial issue or issues free, and then charge thereafter. Some give away their book reviews section for free. Others offer the first few pages of each article for free. Some - such as Leonardo - start free adjunct publications online.

Most electronic journals are published in HTML and/or PDF formats, but some are available in only one of the two formats. A small minority publish in DOC, and a few are starting to add MP3 audio. Some early electronic journals were first published in ASCII text, and some informally-published ones continue in that format.

Scirus

Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine. Like CiteSeer and Google Scholar, it is focused on scientific information. Unlike CiteSeer, Scirus is not only for computer sciences and IT and not all of the results include full text. It also leverages its scientific search results to Scopus, an abstract and citation database covering scientific research output globally. Scirus is owned and operated by Elsevier.
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World Book Encyclopedia

The World Book Encyclopedia, published in the United States, is self-described as the "the number-one selling print encyclopedia in the world."The encyclopedia is designed to cover major areas of knowledge uniformly, however it shows particular strength in some fields. It is based inChicago, Illinois. The first edition (1917) contained eight volumes. New editions have since appeared every year except 1920, 1924, and 1932, with major revisions in 1930 (13 volumes), 1947 (18,000 illustrations), 1960 (20 volumes), and 1988.
Field Enterprises published World Book from 1944 to 1984. World Book, Inc., is a subsidiary of the Scott Fetzer Company, which in turn is aBerkshire Hathaway subsidiary.

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Web of Science

Web of Science is an online academic service provided by Thomson Reuters. It provides access to seven databases: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), Index Chemicus, Current Chemical Reactions,Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science and Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Social Science and Humanities. Its databases cover almost 10,000 leading journals of science, technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities and over 100,000 book-based and journal conference proceedings.
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Scirus
Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine. Like CiteSeer and Google Scholar, it is focused on scientific information[clarification needed]. Unlike CiteSeer, Scirus is not only for computer sciences and IT and not all of the results include full text. It also leverages its scientific search results to Scopus an abstract and citation database covering scientific research output globally. Scirus is owned and operated by Elsevier.
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Scopus
Scopus is a database of abstracts and citations for scholarly journal articles. It indexes 15,400 peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences (including arts and humanities) fields.[1] It is owned by Elsevier and is provided on the Web for subscribers. Searches in Scopus incorporate searches of scientific web pages through Scirus, another Elsevier product, as well as patent databases.
Scopus also offers author profiles which cover affiliations, number of publications and their bibliographic data, references and details on the number of citations each published document has received. It has alerting features that allow anyone who registers to track changes to a profile. By using Scopus Author Preview anyone is able to search for an author, with affiliation name as a limiter, verify the author’s identification and set-up an automatic RSS feed or e-mail alerts to the author’s homepage.

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Live Search Academic was a Web search engine for scholarly literature which existed from 2006-2008; it was part of Microsoft's Live Search group of services. It was similar to Google Scholar, but rather than crawling the Internet for academic content, Live Search Academic search results came directly from trusted sources, such as publishers of academic journals.
Live Search Academic was known as Windows Live Academic Search when the beta version was officially launched on April 11, 2006.The name had changed to Live Search Academic by December 6, 2006, when Microsoft announced the addition of millions of new articles, mainly in biomedicine.
On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced the end of Live Search Books and Live Search Academic, both sites to be closed, with their results integrated into regular Search. The project scanned 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles.


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GoPubMed


GoPubMed is a knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts. The Gene Ontology (GO) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) serve as "Table of contents" in order to structure the millions of articles of the MEDLINE database. The search engine allows biologists (and medical doctors) to find relevant search results significantly faster. MeshPubMed was at one point a separate project, but now the two have been merged.
The technologies used in GoPubMed are generic and can in general be applied to any kind of texts and any kind of knowledge bases. GoPubMed is one of the first Web 2.0 search engines. The system was developed at the Technical University of Dresden by Michael Schroeder and his team and at Transinsight.


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Google Scholar


Google Scholar is a freely-accessible Web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of the world's largest scholarly publishers. It is similar in function to the freely-available Scirus from Elsevier, CiteSeerX, and getCITED. It is also similar to the subscription-based tools, Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson ISI's Web of Science. Google Scholar nonetheless claims to cover more websites, journal sources and languages.[citation needed] Its advertising slogan — "Stand on the shoulders of giants" — is a nod to the scholars who have contributed to their fields over the centuries, providing the foundation for new intellectual achievements.


Google Scholar allows users to search for digital or physical copies of articles, whether online or in libraries.Using its "group of" feature, it shows the available links to journal articles. In the 2005 version, this feature provided a link to both subscription-access versions of an article and to free full-text versions of articles; for most of 2006, it provided links to only the publishers' versions. Since December 2006, it has provided links to both published versions and major open access repositories, but still does not cover those posted on individual faculty web pages;[citation needed] access to such self-archived non-subscription versions is now provided by a link to Google, where one can find such open access articles.Through its "cited by" feature, Google Scholar provides access to abstracts of articles that have cited the article being viewed.It is this feature in particular that provides the citation indexing previously only found in Scopus and Web of Knowledge. Through its "Related articles" feature, Google Scholar presents a list of closely related articles, ranked primarily by how similar these articles are to the original result, but also taking into account the relevance of each paper.

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CSA
CSA (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) is a provider of online databases, based in Bethesda, Maryland. It is now a division of Proquest, which in turn is now a subsidiary of Cambridge Information Group.
ProQuest combines the strengths of two leading information companies, ProQuest Information and Learning and CSA. When these companies merged in 2007, it was on the basis of their most compelling common value -- a deep and abiding commitment to serving libraries and librarians. That passion, built on respect for the role of the library to illuminate, educate, and excite its community, no matter its composition, is both ProQuest's foundation and purpose for being. ProQuest’s mission is to create innovative products and services that are valued by researchers – novice and expert – and the libraries which serve them. As a company, ProQuest stands for the power of discovery through research, and its employees work to deliver on that promise every day.
ProQuest provides seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to science, technology, and medicine.
ProQuest's vast content pools are available to researchers through libraries of all types and include the world's largest digital newspaper archive; periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles and spanning more than 500 years; the preeminent dissertation collection, and various other scholarly collections. Users access the information through the ProQues and CSA Illumina Web-based online information systems; Chadwyck-HealeyTM electronic and microform resources; UMI microform and print reference products; eLibrary, SIRS, and CultureGramsTM educational resources; Ulrich's Serials Analysis SystemTM; COS Research Support Services, and Serials Solutions resource management tools. Through the expertise of business units Serials Solutions and COS, ProQuest provides technological tools that allow researchers and libraries to better manage and use their information resources.

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In the following posts this blog going to compile the general list of search engines for all-purpose search engines and their breif aspects that can be used for academic purposes that is search the journals online .

BASE

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is the multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources, created by Bielefeld University Library in Bielefeld, Germany. It's based on search technology provided by Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company.

BASE is a registered service provider for the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), and has contributed to the Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER) project since June 2006.

OAI metadata are "harvested" for the BASE project from scientific digital repositories that implement the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), and are indexed using FAST's software.

In addition to OAI metadata, the library indexes selected web sites and local data collections, all of which can be searched via a single search interface.



BASE is distinguished from commercial search engines by the following features:
*Resources are academically selected
*Document servers must comply with specific requirements of scientific quality and relevance
*Searches are provided with transparency by a data resources inventory
*Full text searches plus metadata are available (where available)
*BASE discloses resources of the Deep Web, which are often ignored by commercial search *engines or get lost in vast quantities of hits
*Search results are displayed with precise bibliographic data (where available)
*There are several options for sorting the result list, and search results can be refined by author, *resource, document type, language, etc.)

Influence of Internet upon academic journals



The internet makes influence on each single subject matter of the current world. The journals are not exception on that. The Internet has revolutionized the production of, and access to, academic journals, with their contents available online via services subscribed to by academic libraries. Individual articles are subject-indexed in databases, such as Google Scholar. Currently, there is a movement in higher education encouraging open access, either via self archiving, whereby the author deposits his paper in a repository where it can be searched for and read, or via publishing it in a free open access journal, which does not charge for subscriptions, being either subsidized or financed with author page charges. However, to date, open access has affected science journals more than humanities journals. Commercial publishers are now experimenting with open access models, but are trying to protect their subscription revenues. Many web search engines that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. There are many search engines provide the journals through the internet. The most prominent are: Google Scholar, Windows Live Academic, BASE

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research. Content typically takes the form of articles presenting original research, review articles, and book reviews. Academic or professional publications that are not peer-reviewed are usually called professional magazines.
The term "academic journal" applies to scholarly publications in all fields; this article discusses the aspects common to all academic field journals. Scientific journals and journals of the quantitative social sciences vary in form and function from journals of the humanities and qualitative social sciences; their specific aspects are separately discussed. The similar American and British journal publication systems are primarily discussed here; practices differ in other regions of the world.


In brief, academic writing is 'structured research' written by 'scholars' for other scholars (with all university writers being 'scholars' in this context). Academic writing addresses topic-based 'research questions' of interest to anyone who is seeking factually-based, objectively-presented information on a particular topic. The objective of academic writing is the creation of 'new knowledge' via a review of what is currently known about a given topic as the foundation for the author's new views or perspectives on the topic.
In academic writing, the author covers the selected topic from an authoritative point of view. The writing is 'thesis-driven', meaning that the starting point is a particular perspective, idea or 'thesis' on the chosen topic, e.g. establishing, proving or disproving 'answers' to the 'research questions' posed for the topic. In contrast, simply describing a topic without the questions does NOT qualify as "academic writing."
Defining a research question requires the student to first consult existing information on the topic. After this, questions may arise, such as: Is it really this way? How or why did it get that way? Is it always this way? Does 'everyone' see it this way? Do newer sources agree with older ones on the topic? Or, to take another line of inquiry: What influence did X have on Finland (or, of what significance was it to Finland)? Why was the influence this great (or not greater)? What is uniquely 'Finnish' about this topic?

The foundation of the research paper is the documented review of what is currently known about the topic. On this foundation the author constructs his/her perspective, e.g. how the topic may be understood more fully or differently from what is "currently known." The author's perspective may come from the use of more extensive or more up-to-date sources than had been available to previous scholars, or by interpreting the details of these sources differently from how other scholars have done. Totally new information may also be created to 'test' or 'confirm' questions arising in the paper. For FIN-1 papers, the creation of such new information would be via the (optional) independent research component.

compiled from wikipedia & http://www.uta.fi

Benefits of Journal Writing

The benefits of journal writing are fairly well established due to the long history of journal writing. From Anne Frank to Di Vinci, journal writing has evidenced itself.
Benefits of Journal Writing
Once considering the benefits of journal writing, it is important to set a few parameters. First, there is no age limit to victimisation journals. There are distinct benefits for children of all ages, but journal writing is equally valuable to adults. The reason for this is journal writing is an act of personal reflection. Whether it is a juvenile person reflective on the societal nightmare of high school or an overworked parent taking twenty minutes a night to write is irrelevant. The point is, all age groups benefit from stepping back from their life for a few moments and reflective on things.
Whether you recognize it or not, journal writing provides you with an anchor in your daily life. In the journal, you are free to write what you want without restrictions, to truly address the issues in your life without fear of criticism. Put another way, one of the benefits of journal writing is it acts as a self-help psychiatrist, but for More cheaply!
As you write in your journal over time, you’ll likewise start to ascertain a second benefit to doing so. This benefit is one of self-criticism. Inevitably, you’ll see through past entries and review your life. Doing so wish lead you to self-reflection as well as thoughts on how you strength act otherwise should certain situations rise again.
Of equal importance, journal writing has health benefits. Before you click away from this article, consider a time in your life once you were extremely frustrated. Hopefully, you spoke to a friend to get things off your chest. didn’t you feel a lot better afterwards? An effort thing off your chest helps relieve stress, one of the biggest killers in our modern society. Journal writing acts in more the same ways since you are able to write your thoughts without fear of criticism.
There are else benefits to journal writing, but all boil down to one simple fact. Writing in a journal allows you to express yourself without being judged. With the lack of privacy in our modern, digital world, that is hardly a small benefit.
source:http://e-library.net/articles/Creative-Writing/Benefits-of-Journal-Writing.htm

Malaysian Abstracting and Indexing System (MyAIS)

MyAIS was developed in 2007 to provide bibliographic information and abstracts about articles published in academic journals and conference proceedings in Malaysia. It is estimated that there are about 214 scholarly journals published in Malaysia (Md Sidin, 1996). Out of the 214 journal titles, 27 (59.3%) titles are in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and 87 (40.7%) are in the Sciences, Technology and Medical fields. Out of total journals published only 54 (25%) titles are abstracted by international online databases and abstracting services (Zainab, 1997). This means that only Malaysian articles published in these 54 journals are easily accessible to the global learning community. MyAIS attempts to improve the situation by providing accessibility to information about articles published in scholarly journals and conference proceedings in Malaysia.
MyAIS provides an abstracting and indexing system which can be utilized by publishers, authors or individuals gratis to upload bibliographic citations and abstracts as well as keywords of any Malaysian articles into the system. As this is an open access system, any users can search for information, view and download full-text articles which is made available by persons or institutions that contributes to the system. In other words, this system is for the Malaysian education community and relies on the voluntary contributions from authors and publishers.
The development of MyAIS is based on the GNU Eprint software, which is developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of Southampton University (UK). In the spirit of that initiative MyAIS would place all information in its content at the disposal of global educational community, making them searchable, accessible to any potential user.
Objectives
*The full citation information about articles published in Malaysian journals and conference proceedings
*The abstracts of the articles and the keywords assigned to each article
*The references used in each article
*Statistics about the type of use made of the system

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