1. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 1 Information Resources on the Web Finding, Evaluating, and Using Online Information Resources Tutorial 4

2. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 2 Objectives Find library and text resources on the Web. Learn how to cite Web resources. Learn how copyrights affect your use of resources you find on the Web. Find graphics and multimedia resources on the Web.

3. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 3 Library Resources The LibrarySpot Web (www.libraryspot.com)  is a collection of hyperlinks organized in the same general way that a physical library might arrange its collections.

4. LibrarySpot Home Page New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 4

5. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 5 Library Resources The U.S. Library of Congress Web (www.loc.gov)  links to a huge array of research resources, ranging from the Thomas legislative information site to the Library of Congress archives.

6. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 6 U.S. Library of Congress

7. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 7 Citing Web Research Resources The American Psychological Association (APA) and Modern Language Association (MLA) formats for Web page citations are similar to those of print citations. Citation formats for electronic resources are still emerging so you should check for updates to these styles before using them.

8. Citing Web Research Resources New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 8

9. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 9 How the Copyright law governs the use of the text and multimedia elements. Copyright: a right granted by a government to the author or creator of a literary or artistic work, the tangible expression of an idea.  right is for the specific length of time provided in the copyright law  gives the author or creator the exclusive right to print, publish, or sell the work.

10. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 10 Copyright Issues Intellectual property: a general term that includes all products of the human mind.  products can be tangible or intangible.

11. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 11 Copyright Issues Creations that can be copyrighted include virtually all forms of artistic or intellectual expression:  books  music  artworks  recordings (video and audio)  architectural drawings  choreographic works  product packaging  computer software

12. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 12 Copyright Issues In the U.S., works created after 1977 are protected for the life of the author plus 70 years. Registration is no longer required in the U.S.; a work created after 1977 is automatically copyrighted unless the creator makes a specific statement on the work that it is not copyrighted. Once the copyright has expired, the work is in the public domain, which means you are free to copy the files without requesting permission from the source.

13. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 13 Copyright Protection and Internet Technologies When you use your Web browser to see a graphic image, listen to a sound, or view a video clip, your Web browser downloads the multimedia element from the Web server and stores it in a temporary file on your computer’s hard drive. Because computer files are even easier to copy than a picture in a book, the potential for Web copyright violations is much greater.

14. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 14 Fair Use The U.S. copyright law includes an exemption from infringement actions for fair use of copyrighted works. Fair Use provision:  the use of a copyrighted work includes copying it for use in criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research  the definition is intentionally broad and can be difficult to interpret

15. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 15 Fair Use When you make fair use of a copyrighted work in your school assignments or research, always be careful to provide a citation to the original work.

16. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 16 Fair Use You must carefully examine any site form which you download multimedia files to determine what usage limitations apply. If you cannot find a clear statement of copyright terms or a statement that the files are in the public domain, you should not use them on your Web page or anywhere else.

17. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 17 Graphics and multimedia resources on the Web Graphics Interchange Format (GIF):  most GIF files have a.gif filename extension  can store only up to 256 different colors Animated GIF file: combines several images into a single GIF file and gives the appearance of cartoon- like animation.

18. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 18 Images and Graphics on the Web Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG):  newer file format that stores more than 16 million colors than the GIF format  particularly useful for photographs  most JPEG files have a.jpg filename extension.

19. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 19 Images and Graphics on the Web Other file graphic image file formats on the Web include:  Windows bitmap file format (.bmp)  Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) (.tif)  PC Paintbrush format (.pcx)  Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format (.png)

20. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 20 Images and Graphics on the Web One of the best Web resources for the fine arts is the WebMuseum site, which occasionally features special exhibitions. Explore links at: http://www.ibiblio.org/louvre/

21. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 21 Sounds, Music, and Video on the Web Many Web site designers include sound or video clips to enhance the information on their pages. Sound and video files often require that you add software extensions to your Web browser. Software extensions, or plug-ins, are usually available as free downloads.

22. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 22 Sounds, Music, and Video on the Web A computer must be equipped with a sound card and either a speaker or earphones to play an audio file. The Wave (WAV) format digitizes audio waveform information at a user-specified sampling rate and can be played on any Windows computer that supports sound.

23. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 23 Sounds, Music, and Video on the Web The MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) format is a standard adopted by the music industry. MIDI files are much smaller than WAV files and are often used on the Web. They usually have a.midi or.mid file extension.

24. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 24 Sounds, Music, and Video on the Web Streaming transmission:  the Web server sends the first part of the file to the Web browser, which begins playing the file; while the browser is playing the file, the server is sending the next segment of the file.

25. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 25 Sounds, Music, and Video on the Web MP3:  MPEG format’s audio track  somewhat lower in quality than WAV format files, but they are 90 percent smaller  a CD that might hold 15 songs in WAV format (about 40 megabytes per song) could hold 150 popular songs in MP3 format (about 4 megabytes per song)

26. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 26 Ethical and Legal Concerns: Sharing Audio Files The smaller size of MP3 files made it easy to send them from one person to another through the Internet.

27. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 4 27 Legal MP3 File Distribution Portable digital music players that use flash memory technology can store thousands of songs. A number of Web sites now sell digital music in MP3 and other formats.