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

2. 2 Agenda Searching Researching Citing Information Collecting Data

3. 3 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--

4. 4 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?

5. 5 Searching  Google: http://www.google.comhttp://www.google.com  Askjeeves: http://www.askjeeves.comhttp://www.askjeeves.com Evaluating sites  Purpose  Author, Publisher  Intended Audience  Perspective  Currency  Accuracy  Links

6. 6 Researching Invisible Web at http://www.invisible- web.net/http://www.invisible- web.net/ Librarians at http://lii.org/http://lii.org/ Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu/http://infomine.ucr.edu/ UI Library Online at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/index.html http://www.library.uiuc.edu/index.html

7. 7 Citing Information Style Guides  APA at http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.htmlhttp://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html  Georgetown at http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/cite.htm http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/cite.htm  Dartmouth at http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Esources/contents.ht ml http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Esources/contents.ht ml Citation Managers  EndNote at http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/  RefWorks at http://www.refworks.com/http://www.refworks.com/  Article about the two http://www.istl.org/02-summer/article4.html

8. 8 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.orghttp://www.plagiarism.org HTML (p. 7,8) More information  Duke U. at http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htmhttp://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm

9. 9 Collecting Data Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research in Cyberspace  http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/projects/intres/main.htm 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

10. 10 Tutorials for further study Berkeley at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/G uides/Internet/FindInfo.html http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/G uides/Internet/FindInfo.html Albany at http://library.albany.edu/internet/http://library.albany.edu/internet/