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Monday, 7 February 2011
How to use the Internet for effectiveacademic research
Department of
Library Services www.library.dmu.ac.uk
Internet Guide:
How to use the Internet for effectiveacademic research
Using the internet for academic research is different to
using it for leisure and pleasure. This leaflet offers hints and
tips to help you make effective use of the internet for your
research. You can access the internet from the library
computers.
Using internet guides and tutorials to brush up your internet search skills
There is a range of guides and tutorials available on the
library’s home page. Simply click on the ‘Know how’ tab,
then on ‘Internet Guides’. Here you’ll find a list of guides and
tutorials on how to use the internet.
• Internet Detective contains material on evaluating
information.
• Liberation offers basic, intermediate and advanced levels
of tutorial.
• Intute has tutorials geared to a highly specified range of
subjects.
• Tonic is an interactive step-by-step tutorial.
Remember: always evaluate what you find on the
Internet
Anyone can put anything on the internet. It is not policed in
any way and there is no formal quality control. Remember
that information you find could be:
• out of date
• distorted or biased
• simply untrue
• commercial
• personal web pages (for example, a keen amateur’s
interpretation of an artist’s work)
So, when you find information on the internet always
consider the following:
• Who wrote it? Is it someone you know as an expert in the
field? Is their name even given? What are their
credentials?
• Who is this written for? An academic audience?
Secondary school pupils? The general reader? Children?
Or an audience of ‘believers’?
Making best use of search engines
Search engines are a kind of ‘yellow pages’ for the Internet.
They help you to identify information on a particular subject.
One of the most commonly used search engines is Google,
which you can use from the library homepage. To do this go
to the library homepage (www.library.dmu.ac.uk)
• Click on ‘Google’.
• Enter your search. Use the most specific terms you can
think of, the fewer the better.
• For a more accurate search, use Google’s Advanced
Search. This allows you to select recently updated sites,
search for a combination of terms or phrases and search
within specific parts of web sites.
• To ensure that the material you find comes from an
academic source, use Google Scholar. You can also use
Google Scholar to see if an author/researcher has been
cited by other authors/researchers.
For a more comprehensive search use several search
engines. Each one will find some different results. There are
subject specific search engines which enable specialised
searching. These can be found either through an academic
gateway (see below) or in specialised listings on the web.
Using gateways
Academic gateways are good sources of quality-checked
resources. They are collections of carefully selected
websites sorted into specific subject areas. The two main
academic gateways available from the library web page are
BUBL and Intute.
• Is it scholarly material? Are references given? Are there
numerous spelling and grammatical errors?
• Is the material biased? Is the topic considered
impartially? Or is someone trying to convince you of a
particular viewpoint? If so, could they be skewing facts to
make them support their viewpoint, or omitting facts that
don’t?
• Does the author belong to an organisation with an interest
in presenting only one side of the case? Do the links take
you to biased sites?
• What’s the date of the information? Is it so old that it is
no longer relevant? Do the links take you to ‘not found’
pages?
A key way of confirming that the information is accurate, up
to date, reliable and appropriate is to triangulate – that is,
to check this information with recognised academic sources,
such as research journals. Health warning: Some
information on the internet has all the signs of being
academically respectable, but is in fact misleading or
inaccurate or an outright hoax. For an outrageous example
of such a hoax, see http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html.
Using the information
Plagiarism: the significant use by a student of other
people’s work and the submission of it as though it were his
or her own is regarded as plagiarism.
When you use sources of information, books, articles or
electronic and Internet resources you must acknowledge
that you have used them by citing the work at the
appropriate point in your text and in the bibliography or list
of references.
www.library.dmu.ac.uk
Library Services www.library.dmu.ac.uk
Internet Guide:
How to use the Internet for effectiveacademic research
Using the internet for academic research is different to
using it for leisure and pleasure. This leaflet offers hints and
tips to help you make effective use of the internet for your
research. You can access the internet from the library
computers.
Using internet guides and tutorials to brush up your internet search skills
There is a range of guides and tutorials available on the
library’s home page. Simply click on the ‘Know how’ tab,
then on ‘Internet Guides’. Here you’ll find a list of guides and
tutorials on how to use the internet.
• Internet Detective contains material on evaluating
information.
• Liberation offers basic, intermediate and advanced levels
of tutorial.
• Intute has tutorials geared to a highly specified range of
subjects.
• Tonic is an interactive step-by-step tutorial.
Remember: always evaluate what you find on the
Internet
Anyone can put anything on the internet. It is not policed in
any way and there is no formal quality control. Remember
that information you find could be:
• out of date
• distorted or biased
• simply untrue
• commercial
• personal web pages (for example, a keen amateur’s
interpretation of an artist’s work)
So, when you find information on the internet always
consider the following:
• Who wrote it? Is it someone you know as an expert in the
field? Is their name even given? What are their
credentials?
• Who is this written for? An academic audience?
Secondary school pupils? The general reader? Children?
Or an audience of ‘believers’?
Making best use of search engines
Search engines are a kind of ‘yellow pages’ for the Internet.
They help you to identify information on a particular subject.
One of the most commonly used search engines is Google,
which you can use from the library homepage. To do this go
to the library homepage (www.library.dmu.ac.uk)
• Click on ‘Google’.
• Enter your search. Use the most specific terms you can
think of, the fewer the better.
• For a more accurate search, use Google’s Advanced
Search. This allows you to select recently updated sites,
search for a combination of terms or phrases and search
within specific parts of web sites.
• To ensure that the material you find comes from an
academic source, use Google Scholar. You can also use
Google Scholar to see if an author/researcher has been
cited by other authors/researchers.
For a more comprehensive search use several search
engines. Each one will find some different results. There are
subject specific search engines which enable specialised
searching. These can be found either through an academic
gateway (see below) or in specialised listings on the web.
Using gateways
Academic gateways are good sources of quality-checked
resources. They are collections of carefully selected
websites sorted into specific subject areas. The two main
academic gateways available from the library web page are
BUBL and Intute.
• Is it scholarly material? Are references given? Are there
numerous spelling and grammatical errors?
• Is the material biased? Is the topic considered
impartially? Or is someone trying to convince you of a
particular viewpoint? If so, could they be skewing facts to
make them support their viewpoint, or omitting facts that
don’t?
• Does the author belong to an organisation with an interest
in presenting only one side of the case? Do the links take
you to biased sites?
• What’s the date of the information? Is it so old that it is
no longer relevant? Do the links take you to ‘not found’
pages?
A key way of confirming that the information is accurate, up
to date, reliable and appropriate is to triangulate – that is,
to check this information with recognised academic sources,
such as research journals. Health warning: Some
information on the internet has all the signs of being
academically respectable, but is in fact misleading or
inaccurate or an outright hoax. For an outrageous example
of such a hoax, see http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html.
Using the information
Plagiarism: the significant use by a student of other
people’s work and the submission of it as though it were his
or her own is regarded as plagiarism.
When you use sources of information, books, articles or
electronic and Internet resources you must acknowledge
that you have used them by citing the work at the
appropriate point in your text and in the bibliography or list
of references.
www.library.dmu.ac.uk
sing the internet for research
There is lots of information available on the internet, but it is important that when using the internet for research you assess the credibility of the web pages you are looking at. Just because something is published on the internet does not mean it is reliable or accurate: it is very easy to publish things on the internet. Here are some tips to help you assess the credibility of webpages:- Look at the date the website was published to decide how current your information is.
- To decide whether your source is reliable look at the name of the organisation that supplied the information on the website - Is it an educational institution (i.e., .ac or edu extension)? A government agency (i.e., .gov)? A commercial supplier (i.e., .com)? A non-profit organisation (i.e., .org)? Government, university, or professional organisations may be more objective than a business wanting to sell products.
Monday, 31 January 2011
failing economics due to the INTERNET
http://ecommerce-journal.com/articles/how_economic_impact_from_internet_doomsday_scenario
www.netimpactstudy.com/NetImpact_Study_Report.pdf
http://blog.euromonitor.com/2010/05/qa-socioeconomic-impact-of-growing-internet-usage.html
www.netimpactstudy.com/NetImpact_Study_Report.pdf
http://blog.euromonitor.com/2010/05/qa-socioeconomic-impact-of-growing-internet-usage.html
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