LIB 1201 Research and Documentation for the Information Age

i found last weeks lecture usefull. The information i found in the data base strengthened my topic proposal.

I used both EBSCO and Google Scholar or well tried to at least and some of the phrases I searched were “print media”, “broadcast media” , “fair use in reporting”, “creating the news” and “media’s truth”. I didn’t find similarities between the results with the two different search methods, but differences I did find EBSCO didn’t really provide me with accurate articles non of which lead me to something useful for my paper. I feel as though Google scholar is more user friendly because it easily understood my key terms and found some useful articles where as EBSCO didn’t find any it doesn’t understand the natural spoken language or well how I type like Google scholar does in my opinion.

When using internet search engines I typed in plagiarism initially, but I would only get definitions. I then had to type in plagiarism cases, or articles about plagiarism. That’s when I started to get information I needed. In the library databases, specifically EBSCO, I typed in plagiarism cases, it brought me to an article about Martin Stone. He was working at a university and had to resign after his commission found that his work is tainted with multiple plagiarisms. The search results are more relevant on the library databases. The search engines give you what you need as well as misleading articles.

As for keywords, I used : Copyright, Fair use, Music Copyrights, Trade marks and Copyrights, Copyrights law. As for a search engine, I used Google Scholar because  for me it was more effective and easy to use. The only problem I had with it though was the amount of time I spent on it. It just took a lot of my time to choose the right articles or ebooks that were available and a lot more accurate for my research topic. As for library database, I used CQ Researcher. It was also very very easy to work with. You just have to type few keywords and they give a lot of satisfying  results. the only bad thing about it is that it is out of date. What I meant by that is that most of the articles that were given to me was an article in the late 90s. I received very few  informations that are in the year of 2000 and up. In conclusion, I think both search engine and library database are very useful. It only depends on the way you work if you want to ask me which one is best. Some people think search engines are faster than library database. Some think its the opposite. But personnaly I would use Google scholar if I want to research something related to my topic because its easy for me even if I spend a lot of time finding the right  article.