Ebsco offers a graphical way to display a search through their databases. They call it Visual Search.
After a demo yesterday, I'm not sure how it would be helpful to me - but someone must think it helps. Here's an Ebsco tutorial that might make it clear to you what their graphical search results mean.
You can access Ebsco databases through GALILEO. The current password for home use is available through your Georgia librarian.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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I think visual search can really help someone who isn't sure about what aspect of a topic to research. Can help narrow things down or show where the most research is done (well at least what is in Ebsco).
I wrote this on Visual Search for the GALILEO Planet.
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/planet/archive/planet_spring_2006.pdf
I had Grokker on my computer before Ebsco did the Visual Search.
Another 'visual' thing that Ebsco is going to be doing I understand because another vendor - CSA (ProQuest CSA) created a database they call Illustrata where they index and show the charts, graphs, tables in Articles. I know that many scientists and economists look at the tables and graphs, etc. before they read the article.
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Merryll
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