Hi All,
Google scholar is great, but only searhes the public domain web. It will
search your databases ifyou open it up in a closed system (within the
library), but once outside, students will only get public domain
information. Kids need to be aware of this - need to know where they are
in virtual space (Internet literacy). Most have no idea!
:)
BC
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Barbara Combes, Lecturer
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Subject: [LM_NET] Wikipedia vs. peer-reviewed sources
I have to laugh about all this...last year, as a senior prank, one of my
tech aides inserted my name repeatedly in an article on George
Washington that was on Wikipedia. He kept telling me I was older than
dirt, so he wanted everyone to know I'd been at Valley Forge!
Thankfully, his "vandalism" got edited out in a month, but not before
our principal showed it at a staff meeting the next week.
To me, nothing beats Googlescholar or http://lii.org/ for providing
sources with quality information. They are the BEST!
For those of you who still think Wikipedia is a good reference, take a
look at this caveat, straight from Wikipedia itself: "Because Wikipedia
is an ongoing work to which, in principle, anybody can contribute, it
differs from a paper-based reference source in important ways. In
particular, older articles tend to be more comprehensive and balanced,
while newer articles more frequently contain significant misinformation,
unencyclopedic content, or vandalism. Users need to be aware of this to
obtain valid information and avoid misinformation that has been recently
added and not yet removed (see Researching with Wikipedia for more
details). However, unlike a paper reference source, Wikipedia is
continually updated, with the creation or updating of articles on
topical events within seconds, minutes, or hours, rather than months or
years for printed encyclopedias."
Here's how I handle Wikipedia - I tell students it's a "jump off point"
- don't cite from it, don't quote it...get some general ideas from it
AND the
article's BIBLIOGRAPHY, if there is one. That last bit is where you
may
actually ferret out real, peer-reviewed information.
Elizabeth Fox, Technology Instructor
Newport High School, Newport, OR
keokuk@casco.net (pm)
Liz.fox@lincoln.k12.or.us (schooldays only)
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