Good Afternoon:
Here are my results and resposnses from Unit 5's assignments regarding databases and books.
Cannell Library Book Catalog:
Search Term Used: Plagiarism
Citation Information: Andrea Lunsford, Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World, Lisa Buranen and Alice M. Roy, editors. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Subject Headings: Plagiarism or Intellectual Property.
Circulating Book or E Book? Circulating Book
Location and Call Number of Book? PN167. P47. 1999
Clues for Credibility? Sources are listed, Relevant Title, Publisher is a University Press.
Summit Catalog:
Search Term Used: Plagiarism
Citation Information: Watkins, Heidi. Plagiarism. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. Print.
Subject Headings: Plagiarism or Kopieren
Circulating Book or E Book? Circulating Book
Location and Call Number of Book? 191758474
Clues for Credibility? Sources are listed, Relevant Title, Recent Publication.
How Did This Search Differ From the Search in the Cannell Library Book Catalog? Surprisingly, I was able to find much more relevant information from this search.
IT PRO Collection of E-Books
Search Term Used: Home PC
I found IT PRO to be somewhat confusing and difficult to access. However, the site did pull up a lot of information referring to computer software systems, 2112 Sources. When using advanced searches, I lost some of the information. When I used the following combinations, I was given the following results:
General Info/ All Words produced 74 sources and ISBN/ All Words, Authors and Publishers produced 0 sources.
Google Books:
Search Term Used: Plagiarism
Citation Information: Posner, Richard A.. The Little Book of Plagiarism. New York: Random House, 2007. Digital.
Subject Headings: Plagiarism
Circulating Book or E Book? E Book
Location and Call Number of Book? 346.04'82-dc22
Clues for Credibility? Relevant Title, Authority as the author is a Judge, Published recently in 2007.
This was a very labor intensive project unit. I found that I really liked using the Summit Catalog the best; as it was very user friendly. Summit also produced information which would have been usable for my subject of plagiarism. I did not like using IT PRO as it was a bit confusing to navigate. I felt as if Google Books was the least credible source and offered mainly e books rather than print. Overall, I'd utilize either Summit or Cannell's catalog if I were to do more research on plagiarism.
Hi, Carrie:
ReplyDeleteSummit is a great resource and it includes much more items then just Cannell's catalog. If you plan ahead, you can request items through Summit to be sent to Clark. One thing you didn't seem to notice was any difference searching an entire book, using IT Pro and Google Books, versus just searching a book record. If you are pretty sure of your subject or are comfortable exploring by subject, the book records in the catalog are great. If you are more comfortable with a keyword style search, a full text search can be more productive. Google Books is a bit of a mashup between books they have digitized that are available full text and a combination of other books that you can see bits and pieces of but it is right at your fingertips if you are facing a deadline.
Cheers,
Andrea