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

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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? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Using the Internet for Research

Angela Benson, Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

March 17, 2005

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Agenda

SearchingResearchingCiting InformationCollecting Data

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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--

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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?

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Searching

Searching Google: http://www.google.com Askjeeves: http://www.askjeeves.com

Evaluating sites Purpose Author, Publisher Intended Audience Perspective Currency Accuracy Links

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Tutorials for further study

Berkeley at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Albany at http://library.albany.edu/internet/