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Internet Detective
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The also warn you to watch out where the information you use is coming from. | All the sources you used were from the USA and you missed out all the European research in this area. |
| What is plagiarism? | Cut/paste text from web sites into your assignment |
| What is a citation? | When you credit the writerof something that you put into your assignment. |
| A common mistake made by students is they rely on Internet searches for their resources and ... | ignore other key sources. |
| Students don't....the quality of the information they find. | critically evaluate |
| Students copy information from the Internet and don't... | acknowledge their sources |
| The Academic publishing process | Academics usually publish their research in formal publications such as journal papers and articles and or reports. These follow formal procedures designed to quality-assure the work. |
| Peer Review? | Is what characterizes academic research. If a publication is peer reviewed it means it has been read, checked, and authenticated (reviewed) by independent, third party academics (peers). |
| Scholarly Journals? | Peer reviewed articles are often collated into these, which are usually published by academic publishing houses, professional societies or university press. |
| Electronic Journals? | Nowadays many journals are available in electronic form over the internet. Ask your lecturers or librarians how to find and use the key journals for your subject. The sooner you do this the quicker you will succeed in your research. |
| Library eJournal services? | Aren't usually free-a subscription has to be paid. A university library will have paid will have paid some subscriptions for its users-who can then get free access to these journals via their library web services, using a special password. |
| eJournal publishers? | If you can't get access to eJournals from your library you may be able to via the publisher's web services. Some offer "pay-per-view" which means you pay a small fee for each article you view. |
| ePrint? | Increasingly academics are offering free access to their refereed journal articles by means of databases accessible via the Web called Institutional Repositories(IR's). |
| Bibliographic databases? | The databases draw together details of scholarly publications from a wide range of sources including academic publishers, journals, archives and sometimes books, and so enable you to search a large body of the scholarly literature in one go. |
| Academic Web directories? | Academic web directories guide you to the best online resources for research-and each resource has been selected and reviewed by a subject specialist. |
| Library web sites? | The library web site for your university or college will be an important source of information for you, as it will quickly quide you to the key electronic journals, bibliographic databases and archives that y |