Library Resources Quality Information for Research

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Library ResourcesQuality Information for Research

• Prepared by
• Brian Quigley Ilan Eyman
• The Library

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What is Research?
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Is It Research?

• Review of a blog about politics
• List of political blogs with descriptions
• Discussion of the impact of political blogs on
  campaigns, using evidence to support your
  conclusions

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• Anyone Everyone

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• Valuable information
• Books
• Journals
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• print or online

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Default Search
online
internet politics

• All Words
• Internet is key to engaging young people with
  politics...
• Proximity
• The politics of Internet communication...
• Phrase
• In the age of Internet politics...

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OR

• Any Words

blogs
weblogs
OR
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AND

• All Words

political
campaigns
AND
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Building a Search
blog or weblog
and campaign
and politic
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Truncation

• politic
• politics, political, politician, politicians
• campaigncampaign, campaigns, campaigning

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Scholarly vs. Popular

• Scholarly
• Longer articles
• Scholarly audience
• Author affiliation
• Plain paper
• No advertisements
• References

• Popular
• Shorter articles
• General audience
• No author affiliation
• Glossy paper
• Advertisements
• No references