HIGHLIGHTS

Google Tips & Info  - Here are a few Google shortcuts that you might find useful. (Some of these shortcuts work with Yahoo! too.)

1. stocks: - Use this query with a stock symbol for financial info
2. site: - Limits the search to a particular site or domain
3. link: - Use with a URL and it lists pages that link to the URL
4. phonebook: - Use with a phone number for a reverse lookup or  with an area code and a key word for a phone listing

QuackTrack
The world's largest blog index places blogs into categories.

Bookmarklet Info - A bookmarklet is a java script link that you can add to your browser's favorites or bookmarks list to add functionality. 

To add the bookmarklet, right-click on the link and choose "Add to Favorites". Or, most browsers let you click and drag the link up to the Links on your toolbar, and then release the mouse. This gives you easy access to the link.

Featured Bookmarklet:
Send Location(s) by e-mail opens your browser's e-mail window with the current page's title as the subject and the location as the message.  If the page has frames, each frame's location is also listed.

Searchroller - From ResearchBuzz.com, this utility lets you create a set of domains you want to search. It accepts a list of domains (or folders within domains, like http://www.google.com/adsense/) and rolls them into a bookmarklet that you can use to search that particular set of domains whenever you like.

Content Alert Info
Many publishers offer free Table of Contents email alerts with registration. These emails do not offer links to the full-text. To receive the entire article, you may need to consult JAKE and the appropriate a Library database, or you   Some of the databases available through Miller Library subscriptions and the POWER Library--Proquest, Professional Development Collection, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE, etc-- allow you to create journal alerts.

To create the alert:
1. Enter the database
2. Click on "Publication Search" or "Publications" (It varies according to database)
3. Search for the title for which you want the alert
4. Click on the title and a screen will open up with a list to dates and volumes (that you could browse, if you wish).   
5. Click on "Set up Alert" or "Journal Alert"
6. Enter the email address that will receive the alert and any relevant information about frequency, etc.