Week 9 Nov. 4 & 6, 2013 (no class Mon. Nov. 11)

1. Week 9 Nov. 4 & 6, 2013(no class Mon. Nov. 11) LIR 10 Sections 1010 & 3708 Introduction to Information Literacy

2. Website evaluation:look for biased, misleading, incomplete info.! See Week 8: Comparative Website Evaluation: In-Class Exercise

3. Answers these questions for your assigned website: • Is it Authoritative? • What is its Purpose? • Is it Relevant to the question? Are advanced directives in healthcare ethical? What is Climate Change? Are there privacy concerns regarding government use of biometrics?

4. Final Project Expectations • PART 1: Research Reflection • Include full topic question/thesis at top! • Use the homework—give specific examples of search terms, limiters, etc. • Review sample final projects • Write complete sentences • Proof read! Spell-check! 200 points = 20% course grade

5. Final Project Expectations, cont. PART 2: THREE (3) citations with annotations • YES, use sources from your homework, but only if high quality; otherwise, find better ones. • Use Annotation Guide, and sample annotations. • Be specific and give examples; don’t be vague • Incorporate my corrections • Five extra points if one source is a Primary Source.

6. Final Project—What does it look like? Research Reflection (2-3 par.) & 3 citations/annotations Name Final Project, page 2 Works Cited Citation 1 Citation1, line 2 Annotation Annotation Annotation Annotation Citation 2 Citation 2, line 2 Annotation Annotation [continue on next page(s)] Name LIR 10, Section # Final Project Topic Question/Thesis Research Reflection Paragraph 1 Paragraph 1 Paragraph 1 Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 2 [start new page at end of section]

7. Avoiding biased or misleading sites • Evaluate for authority and bias • “Who Is” domain searching to find owner of site • HealthReviews.org – health journalism • FactCheck.org & PolitiFact.com – political claims • Periodical articles Point of View • Avoid “Content Farms”

8. Content Farms:brief, quick but low-quality information How to Recognize Content Farms

9. Finding Better Websites • Search a pre-selected group of sites • Web directories • Subject directories • Break into the Invisible Web • Specialized search engines • Specialized databases

10. Internet Directories • What? • Searchable lists of web sites • Maintained, often by librarians • Why? • Quality control! • Descriptions • Focus • Short cut to best of the best—save time!

11. Internet Public Library 2 http://ipl2.org • Source for locating high quality web sites and other search engines. Incorporates Librarians’ Internet Index. • Great descriptions and ratings • “Resources by Subject” • Searchable by key word (stay broad)

12. Open Directory Project(formerly Google Directory) www.dmoz.org • Largest web directory • Volunteer editors • Hierarchical subjects structure • Science  Astronomy  Images  NASA

13. Explore a web directories • Use one or more of the directories on the class website • Look for one of the following topics: Gothic romance "punk rock“ foreclosure • Search by words, or browse by topic from broad to narrow • Find a website that’s relevant for the topic and decent quality

14. The Invisible Web (“Deep Web”) • Information invisible to web crawlers, the automatic software that indexes web pages • All the information that’s only accessible by typing in searches by hand on a web site • Many, many databases full of information • Several times larger than the visible web!

15. Breaking into the Invisible Web • Locate specialized databases and search engines by topic • browse or search by broad category • Ask yourself • What organization or government agency might have a database or website on your topic? • For special formats (images, audio, music) what specialized search engine might be effective?

16. Example: What organization would keep track of the most popular baby names in the U.S.? See link on class website (look for babies) (Social Security Admin.) Go to the site and search your name

17. Specialized Search Engines There are search engines for many specialties: Humanities Education Business Education Health Science Technology • Science example: www.science.gov • Searches 50 databases, 2100 selected websites, 200 million pages of authoritative US government science information • How to find specialized search engines? • Go to Google and try these searches: • public health “search engines” • OR science “search engines”

18. Also: • Directories of Specialty Search Engines • Search engines for Special Formats (Images, etc.) Watch out for the advertisements!

19. Other quality online sourcesand how to find them • Google Scholar & Google Books • Finding full-text (Citation Linker, Periodical List) • SRJC Web Resources • Quick link to Google Scholar search • Recommended Websites • Internet Search Guide • WorldCat

20. Google Scholar • Search across many disciplines and sources • Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles – with links to citing articles • From academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations

21. Google Scholar, continued • Rank by relevance plus author, publication, and number of times cited by other scholars • Drawbacks • many of the articles are controlled by journal publishers • free abstract viewing BUT…costs $$$ to see the full article (Get the citation and find it in the SRJC library, or, ask a librarian for assistance!)

22. Google Scholar, continued… • Topic search example: search engine privacy • Limit results after search by year (since 2008) • Search results: * Full text links on right with [PDF] * Cited by # (other articles and papers citing this article –that is, this article is listed in the other article’s Reference list)

23. No full text? • Many articles on Web are Abstract only – no full text • Find the entire article without paying. Two tools on the SRJC Databases page: • SRJC Periodical List • Enter the title of the journal or magazine and see the databases at SRJC which include that title • SRJC Citation Linker • Enter the article citation info (title/year/volume/issue) or the DOI and link directly to article in database

24. Google Scholar – you try it Go to scholar.google.com Click on “Advanced Scholar Search” (right of search box) Make your search more specific: with the words designing information literacy where my words occur: in the title of the article Published between 2008 - Search only articles in… Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

25. Google Scholar – you try it, continued • 3rd result should be: Designing and testing a web-based board game for teaching information literacy skills and concepts • Click on Cited by 3 below this result • A list of the articles which cite the one above is shown • Is the second listed article of these 2 citing articles available at SRJC – in which database and/or format?

26. Google Books (books.google.com) • Internet library of downloadable e-books • Download entire book or read on line • Go to: http://books.google.com/ • Click on a category to browse, or Search • Click on the image or title (click on “about this book”) • Examine the options available • Read or write a review; purchase; read online • WorldCat (worldcat.org) • Global network of libraries • Over 1 billion items recorded • Corresponding libraries who own it • Click on http://www.worldcat.org/ • Keyword searching • Advanced Searching

27. Homework #9 (fill out and hand in the homework sheet) • Use a Web Directory • Explore Google Scholar • Investigate a Web search tool

28. Next week: Finding the real research • A news release is brief, incomplete, and not a proper source • How to find the real research study? • Use your detective skills, the Periodical List on SRJC Library website, Google Scholar, and web searching!