Friday, February 28, 2014

LexisNexis search part 4

I was starting to get some promising-looking results from my most recent search, but there were too many and too many false positives. I thought I could search within my results to narrow them down. I first searched for 'integrate' as what I am interested in is organizations integrating user-generated content into their websites. This left nine results, several of which initially looked promising:
 
 Unfortunately, these news articles were too basic and trivial to provide much information, so I returned to my large pool of results and tried searching within them for "website" instead. However, that search returned only two results, both of which were included in the nine results from "integrate."

I thought that using limiters to filter the results might me more effective, so I took a list at the subjects listed:

Apparently, this list includes the subjects attached to every single record included in the results. It took me a while to scroll through them, but I found a couple promising categories: intellectual property, company activities & management, science & technology, experimentation & research,
Intellectual property--looks like it's all records of patents and trademarks
company activities & management--several promisingly-titled hits turned out not to be relevant on further investigation
Science & technology--Some related material but nothing directly relevant
Experimentation & research--All results were articles previously investigated above

I know that intent of the search blog is to locate at least one useful result in every database searched, but I am reluctantly concluding that either LexisNexis does not contain anything substantive on the topic of web design or I am simply unable to find it.

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