Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research: For Windows & Macintosh [Paperback]

Tara Calishain (Author), Jill Nystrom (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1998

Provides expert tips and techniques based on the authors'

extensive Internet researching experience. Presents information on new resources and technologies. Covers plug-ins, helper applications, URLs, and protecting privacy online.

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Amazon.com Review

If you want research on the Net to be convenient as well as sound, it pays to know what tools you have available. Calishain and Nystrom provide a good introduction to online research for Netscape users. They showcase the research methodology, places likely to lead you to the information you seek, and the problems you'll want to avoid.

The book's 25 chapters are divided into five sections. The first provides an overview of Internet tools--those you can find online, those built into Netscape, and those that come from your own brain. Next, they discuss the many ways to get information off the Net, including mailing lists, newsgroups, the World Wide Web, push technology, and now commonly overlooked topics such as Gopher and Telnet. Part 3 introduces specialty resources for information on topics like government research or finding individuals and businesses on the Web. Part 4 examines security issues, such as avoiding fraudulent information, protecting your privacy, and dealing with information overload.

The final part deals with more advanced and scholarly research topics, including archiving, copyright issues, how to cite sources, and how to give your research back to the Net. Naturally, Calishain and Nystrom offer a wide variety of specific sites to explore, ranging from the must-know staples such as Yahoo and Alta Vista, to more easily missed treasures like the Mad Scientist Network and Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary (and Guru)--the place to go when you can't quite bite into the word right on the tip of your tongue. --Elizabeth Lewis

Product Details

• Paperback: 391 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group; 2nd edition (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566048451
• ISBN-13: 978-1566048453
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,875,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable reference for newcomers and experienced users., October 21, 1998

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This review is from: Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research: For Windows & Macintosh (Paperback)

This book is an indispensable source of knowledge about the Internet in all of its facets. For the newcomer, it provides guidance; for the more experienced user if provides valuable source material. The book covers Netscape's capabilities, mailing lists, newsgroups, and the World Wide Web, with facts about search engines and many other research resources. It supplies useful tips, sage advice, and valuable cautions about using the Internet for both formal and informal investigations. The writing style of Tara Calishain and Jill Alane Nystrom is direct, clear, and entertaining. The book could very well be used for a course on the Internet, as a rare example of a textbook that is fun to read. Dr. Raymond L. Murray Nuclear Engineering N.C. State University Raleigh, NC 27695

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive guide to Internet Research using Netscape, October 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research: For Windows & Macintosh (Paperback)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an excellent text for Internet instructors., January 31, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research (Paperback)

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