Final

expansion, ebook, impact, read

Search Statement: ebook expansion impact

the statement "ebook expansion imact" returned no results in academic search premier however i found 304 results on pro quest with this search statement, i was able to find an article about how the growth of ebooks affect public libraries.

Duncan, Ross. "Ebooks and Beyond: The Challenge for Public Libraries." Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 23.2 (2010): 44-55. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 10 Dec. 2012.


Using APSECT i found that this article is peer reviewed, which would fall under authorirty, for sources i found the article is somewhat specific with in text  citations, sometimes, such as a news report listing as much as who was reporting, what time, the station, and date. the purpose is described in the first paragraph and forshadows the rest of the article. for evenness i found that the author is relatively impartial and unbiased, and does not seem to have any strong feeling either way. coverage is great and covers most of what the question asks about ebooks. timeliness does concern me a little, being written in 2010 when ebooks were first starting to become prevalent, though it could be used to compare how ebooks are today and to see how accurate this article was in predicting the growth of ebooks and how it will affect libraries.
            overall i think this would be a great resource for a topic such as this.




this article talks about how the recent growth in popularity of ebooks will affect public libraries. the author uses his sources very well, not only citing but talking about how it may not be 100% accurate, or why this result was so high in a survey. the most compelling part of the argument was how the author compares this to the music industry and how the libraries may face a similar choice of having to go digitial or essential go out of business.
           i feel like libraries do need to find a way to adapt to the changing ebook situation before its too late for them to do anything. i agree with the author in that with the new prevalence in portable ebook readers like the ipad and amazon kindle people are starting to buy those and read ebooks instead of physical books due their portablitiy compared to them. its hard for most people to carry around 50 books wherever they go, but one ipad is small enough to take most places.
           this is a great article and is easy to understand too, i would recommend this to anyone doing research on ebooks.

Unit 10

ftp://twoplayfulotters.com/asugiyama.html



to be honest i already knew about source pages and html, so it was new to me. however filezilla was new and i found it to be interesting in how i could upload a file to have anyone view that page. i may use filezilla in the future for other projects, school related or otherwise.

Research Journal Unit 8

Search Tool Used: Bing

1. automatically does AND searches, no need to put AND in.  e.g. microsoft AND computers =  microsoft computers

2. OR and NOT are still used to combine and exclude words respectively.

3. has an "instant answers" feature for instant answers.  e.g. to define a word just type "define [word]", or "how many minutes are in a day"  "solve 4x + 7 = 35".  for questions with easy fact based answers.

4. the order of the words you search affects the rseults, so put the most important words first.  e.g. treehouse vacation California returns different results than California treehouse vacation.

5. also provides related searches that may provide slightly different results  and help you find what you were looking for.  e.g. like in #4 if you search "treehouse vacation california" then "California treehouse vacation" may come up in the related searches since they have different results



Metasearch Tool Used: Yippy!

1.like bing it automatically uses AND so there is no need to put it in you search

2. is NOT case sensitive

3. you can search specific domains or site using "site:domainname" and "site:sitename" respectively.   e.g. site:edu [search phrase] to search only educational sites that end with ".edu" or  "site:clark.edu" to search for pages that are ONLY on clark.edu.

4.  unlike other search engines you can search for pages of a specific file type using "filetype:type".       e.g. searching  "filetype:pdf trees"  will only return results that are PDF pages

5.  handles OR NOT and "" as normal



Subject Directory used:  Intute

1. unlike Bing and Yippy! does not use AND by default and will change results accordingly when used

2. OR NOT and "" function normally as Boolean operators

3. you can also use a wildcard (*) for truncating

4.  advanced search lets you search by title, description or keywords, you can filter by subject (such as law or psychology) and resource type (such as news, maps, blogs or images) and country of origin, you can also display all fields or titles only and sort by relevance or alphabetically .

5. they also list their criteria for how they select results, which helps you know what may or may notso up no matter what.

"online piracy" and business



"Stopping SOPA ; Online Piracy." The Economist Jan 21 2012: 33-. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 9 Nov. 2012 .


the SOPA act is important as it is a turning point for not only piracy but the internet as a whole, regardless of whether or not it is passed. this article address the issue of whether the bill hurts innocent websites and online as a whole.




Mehar, Saghir Munir. "Megaupload; Sailing in Dangerous Waters Case of Online Piracy and Access to Free Information."Law Technology 45.2 (2012): 20-7. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 9 Nov. 2012.

the taking down of megaupload was a major event in not only online piracy but the internet as a whole, this article provides information on prosecutors argument and the business model of megaupload as well as giving a summary of the case itself.


Hamilton, Ian. "Politicians Discuss Online Piracy Bill." Orange County RegisterJan 20 2012. Western Newsstand. Web. 9 Nov. 2012 .

The recent acts for piracy are currently the major topics for this issue, many argue that they will have unintended consequences for websites who have done nothing wrong. the debate still continues and is now at its high point with the introduction of the new bills. the article helps to understand the viewpoint of why many people oppose SOPA.



at first my research statement also used the work "affect" in regards to business but i found that it narrowed the results too much and found that taking it out helped me find good articles relevant to my topic.

Unit 5

Cannell Library

Search Term(s) used:
  Internet

Citation information for one book: (author, title, city of publication, publisher, publication date)
Jeff Kalwerisky, Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) audit/assurance program, Rolling Meadows, Ill., ISACA, 2012

 Subject Headings (taken from the Subject Field)

Internet telephony -- Auditing. Computer network protocols.

 Is this a Circulating Book or an E-Book?
E-Book but also available in print

 Location and Call Number for the Book
Online Resource

What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? (Remember the ASAP criteria from IRIS):
written very recently (2012)
DOES have bibliography




Summit

Search Term(s) used:  Internet, internet piracy


Citation information for one book: (author, title, city of publication, publisher, publication date)
Torr, James D. Internet Piracy. Detroit: Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, 2005. Print.

 Subject Headings (taken from the Subject Field)

Copyright -- Electronic information resources -- United States. Sound recordings -- Pirated editions -- United States. Piracy (Copyright) -- United States

 Is this a Circulating Book or an E-Book?
circulating


 Location and Call Number for the Book
Cannell Second Floor

KF3024.C6 I58 2005 c.2  

What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? (Remember the ASAP criteria from IRIS):
not written recently for a book about the internet (2005), might be outdated as opposed to not credible because of both the relatively young age of the internet and the extremely fast rate at which it has grown and evolved (piracy included).



IT Pro

With advanced search you can search for things such as ISBN's, full text, author or publisher.  You can also add additional criteria such as copyright year, categories/words to specifically search or even not search for and whether to use all or any of the criteria. You can also search in specific folders.



Google books


Search Term(s) used:
Internet
History of the Internet


Citation information for one book: (author, title, city of publication, publisher, publication date)
Ryan, Johnny. A History of the Internet and the Digital Future. London, England: Reaktion, 2010. Print.

What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? (Remember the ASAP criteria from IRIS):

recently published (2010) which is good for a history book on a subject as young as this
has good reviews BUT there are only 8 reviews so far on google books



Summary


My favorite was summit, i found it to be very intuitive and detailed, cannell was my least favorite, i found it hard to navigate and to find information for citation. Summit was easy to search and narrow down topics as well as having a citing tool for MLA as well as APA, Chicago, Harvard, and Turabian (whatever that is).  Summit also shows the availability in libraries across the nation as well as clark

 

Research Journal, Part 4: Types of Information The

1) Is a vegetarian diet healthier than a meat-based diet?
I would look for comparison studies through trade publications and scholarly works. Opinion articles from magazines seem like a poor choice because they might not be as in depth or reliable when compared to a study that tests the differences over a period of time; the longer being the better.

2) Target often forces musicians to alter lyrics in order to have
their CDs sold in Target stores. Is this censorship?
being a very open-ended question i would use opinion articles from both sides and find interviews of people who had to do this and their own thoughts about it. I would use Scholarly Journal articles to find a general history about the topic itself and how it was viewed in similar situations in the past.

3) How much more can a college graduate expect to earn over
someone with a high school diploma?
i would find statistics showing the comparison of each from trade publications and articles from trusted/reliable groups such as a government agency or even a book/academic encyclopedia since this topic has been a popular topic throughout history to promote getting a education beyond high school, and to know the proportional differences (if any) between the 2 from past to present.


4) Should educators use commercial services to combat
plagiarism?
also being an open-ended topic, opinion articles would be good as well as books too; as plagiarism has been a controversial topic for a very long time.  i would also try to find out if this has been done before and if it has, what were the results?

5) Is the current lack of sunspot activity affecting global
warming?
i would use scholarly and/or reliable sources since this is a very controversial topic and as a result: bias about it is very common. anything that has been verified as reliable (Scholarly Journals being the best example) would be good. i would try to find  information on sunspots themselves as well as global warming, in addition to whether sunspots affect global warming or not.

1.  how has online online piracy affected the way products are sold both on the web and in physical stores?

i would try to find information on how online stores/purchasing has evolved in recent years and how products were sold before online stores, when they first become popular and in present to make a comparison.  i would use trade publications to learn more about piracy itself and books to help make the comparison between digital and physical products sold in both online stores and regular ones and the differences in methods  sale and protections from before online stores and present day.

2. how has the flow of information  changed from the way it was 30 years ago?

academic encyclopedias and books would be my first choice in order to compare it.  i would look how long it took for information to travel across various distances and and how the methods of doing so have changed over time.

3. how has the rate of growth of the internet changes over time, and how has that affected things that do (or did) not use the internet right now, e.g. a physical newspaper, telephones, etc.

Unit 3: Summary

i learned better ways to narrow topics and come up with a research question,   GVRL has less information than Wikipedia but is a much more acceptable source, as well as not always being as general as Wikipedia.
but Wikipedia has much more articles and are easy to find , and scrolling down to the bibliography and going to those sources is also a good idea, rather than citing Wikipedia itself.
   And when narrowing a topic, looking up synonyms for words helps to find articles that you may not have found with just 1 word, and taking keywords from an article you found after you narrowed the results is also helpful.