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Using the Internet for Research

Using the Internet for Research. Angela Benson, Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 17, 2005. Agenda. Searching Researching Citing Information Collecting Data. Searching Activity. How tall was the World Trade Center?

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Using the Internet for Research

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  1. Using the Internet for Research Angela Benson, Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 17, 2005

  2. Agenda • Searching • Researching • Citing Information • Collecting Data

  3. Searching Activity • How tall was the World Trade Center? • What percent of Illinois residents fell below the poverty level in 2000? • Was President Clinton impeached? • How is breast cancer treated? • Your question--

  4. Search Strategy Questions • What do you want to know? • What are the key concepts or topics? • What keywords define those concepts/topics? (include synonyms) • What is the relationship between the keywords? • How does the search tool you’re using require you to specify that relationship?

  5. Searching • Searching • Google: http://www.google.com • Askjeeves: http://www.askjeeves.com • Evaluating sites • Purpose • Author, Publisher • Intended Audience • Perspective • Currency • Accuracy • Links

  6. Researching • Invisible Web at http://www.invisible-web.net/ • Librarians at http://lii.org/ • Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu/ • UI Library Online at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/index.html

  7. Citing Information • Style Guides • APA at http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html • Georgetown at http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/cite.htm • Dartmouth at http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Esources/contents.html • Citation Managers • EndNote at http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/ • RefWorks at http://www.refworks.com/ • Article about the two • http://www.istl.org/02-summer/article4.html

  8. Citing Information • Plagiarism • Using ideas and expressions without citing the source • Why it’s easier on the Web • Copy-and-paste • Buying papers online • Identifying it • Plagiarism at http://www.plagiarism.org • HTML (p. 7,8) • More information • Duke U. at http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm

  9. Collecting Data • Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research in Cyberspace • http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/projects/intres/main.htm • Surveys • UIUC Web Services • http://www.opa.uiuc.edu/webservices/ • Survey Monkey • http://www.surveymonkey.com/ • Interviews, Focus groups, Journals • Blogger • http://www.blogger.com • http://bensonuiuc.blogspot.com/ • Email, bulletin board, mailing lists

  10. Tutorials for further study • Berkeley at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html • Albany at http://library.albany.edu/internet/

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