The activity was interesting because we learned how the info get into the web pages and people can read it. It's like coding, intrigue and exciting. You need to do it correct to get better results. Anyway you can retry  as much as you can get the result you wish. I liked to play with color coding. I couldn't even imagine that there are some many gradations of colors and they are all encoded. Now I got a desire to study it deeper. Thank you for clear detailed instructions for this assignment and for the whole quater. It was really a great summer class. I have learned a lot and did it with pleasure.

Final Exam

Deep web: Article "Distad, M. (2011). The Future of Print: The Book. Feliciter, 57(5), 182-184" found on the EBSCOhost database which I used through the Clark Cannel Library. I used advanced search, entering words: future print book  by title and distad by author. I got immediate result, then I pushed full version button and got the text.

Evaluation of the article

Authority -- The article's author Merrill Distad is an author, editor and librarian. He is the professional we can trust.

Sources – The article is published by Canadian Library Association. The author gives interesting historical references, research data from longitudinal study of educational achievements, statistics from Amazon and his University book store, which could be a primary source.

Purpose -- The author tries to prove that hard-copy will not disappear. They will exist along with e-books.

Evenness -- The article is balanced. Both sides of the problem are outlined.

Coverage – The topic is covered with good proofs and references.

Timeliness – The article is published in 2011, so it is still very relevant to the topic.

Overall the article meets the ASPECT criteria for credibility. The author is clearly qualified to write on the topic. The article is recent and the author uses statistics and data to back-up his points. The author see not only the problems brought by new technologies but the benefits either. 

Open web: Article "Morrison, E. (2011, August 22). Are books dead, and can authors survive? The Guardian." found on guardian.co.uk.com using Google search engine. This was the fastest way and I used it successfully entering the name of the article in the search box.

Evaluation of the article

Authority -- The article's author Ewan Morrison is a professional writer.

Sources -- The author includes some articles through links in the body of his article. If you look at these sources it’s getting clear that they are mostly opinionated (articles from newspapers). They are not based on a deep research. The article is not sited properly. Nevertheless, some of his sources are reputable (Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Wired Magazine).

Purpose – The author insists that e-books will soon make hard-copy books and writers themselves obsolete. His purpose is to attract readers’ attention to the problem of prints.

Evenness –The article is opinion based, so it has a clear prepossession towards the author's opinion.

Coverage -- The article cover the topic but describes only the negative effects of the digital world and don’t mention the benefits.

Timeliness – Article is current. It was published in August 2011.

For me, this article is not credible enough because of poor reference to sources and the quality of sources. Also the article is not balanced and shows only negative effects of the digital world. It could be used as a demonstration of existing opinions in the publishing world. 

Article summary: The Future of Print: the Book.

Merril Distad explains in his article why he feels that printed books will never disappear. He draws upon historical proofs to show that the opinions about disappearing hard-copy books exist for a long period of time. As it didn’t happen before, it surely will not happen now.

He feels that people emotionally are connected to the tree-books. Nothing can replace the feeling of touch to the book, the smell, the convenience to read from paper vs from screen. And I think he is right. Even if you look through our class discussion on this topic, you will see that most people prefer hard-copy books to read because of these reasons.

I liked Distad’s opinion that there is the place for both e-books and printed copies, that technologies bring not only the problems but also the benefits. Portability and easy access to great variety of literature and information itself give the room for electronic reading devices.

The author makes a good point about importance of publishing books for children and education. Parents have to keep books at their homes, if they want the kids to be successful in education and life. Distard insists that “presence of books in homes creates readers… “ and “the future of printed books is in hands of today’s children.”

Unit 9

.gov

1.       I searched in Google

2.       statistics (e-commerce or “electronic commerce”) future:.gov

3.       Author: Orson Swindle, Commissioner from Federal Trade Commission

4.       Title of the Website: Federal Trade Commission

5.       Title of the Article: E-commerce: The Future of Banking and Financial Services

Swindle, Orson. "E-commerce: The Future of Banking and Financial Services." Ftc.gov. N.p., June-July 2007. Web. 31 July 2012. <http://www.ftc.gov/speeches/swindle/fedbsn000621.shtm>.

I consider this is a credible source because it is a government agency. The mission is to prevent business practices that are anticompetitive, deceptive, or unfair to consumers. In the endnotes we can find the sources used for publication: government statistics and data from scholarly journal and periodicals. The purpose of the publication is to discuss the impact of technology on the financial services industry.

The information on the site is updated periodically. The publication was last modified in June 2007. It would be better to do this more often. The author is the experienced and looks like knowledgeable because of his work in the federal trade commission.

.edu

1.       I search in Google

2.       statistics (e-commerce or “electronic commerce”) future:.edu

3.        Author: Center for International Development at Harvard University

4.       Title of the Website: Global Trade Negotiations

5.       Title of the Article: E-Commerce Summary

"E-Commerce Summary." Cid.harvard.edu. N.p., June 2004. Web. 31 July 2012. <http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidtrade/issues/ecommerce.html>.

The article is a summary of the last researches in the electronic commerce area. The resources of the site are research papers, reports from international educational and trade organizations. I can trust the site because it is a famous educational and research institution in the USA and in the world. The site claims itself as a portal to current trade research, activities, proceedings and debate, so you can find information with different points of view. The report was updated in March, 2004, so the information is current.

.com

1.       I search Ixquick

2.       Statistics AND future AND “electronic commerce”:.com

3.       Author: victor Calanog

4.       Title of the Website: National Real Estate Investor

5.       Title of ghe Article: “Will Electronic commerce Kill Brick-and Mortar Retail?”

Calanog, Victor. "Will Electronic Commerce Kill Brick-and-Mortar Retail?" Nreionline.com. N.p., 8 Mar. 2011. Web. 31 July 2012. http://nreionline.com/distressedinventory/electronic_commerce_kill_retail_0308/. 

I think this site is credible because it is electronic version of the leading magazine which covers commercial real estate news, trends and research. The author is head of research and economics for New York-based research firm Reis. His article is very fresh (2011) and the chart he provides is from the latest research and data from the U.S. Census Bureau. 

.org

1.       I search with Google

2.       Statistics AND future AND “electronic commerce”:.org

3.       Author: Andrew D. Mitchell

4.       Title of the Web site: Journal of International Economic Law

5.       Title of the article: Towards compatibility: the Future of Electronic Commerce within the Global Trading System

Mitchel, Andrew D. "Towards Compatibility: The Future of Electronic Commerce within the Global Trading System." Journal of International Economic Law. N.p., Apr. 2001. Web. 31 July 2012. <http://jiel.oxfordjournals.org/content/4/4/683.abstract>.

This is a popular Oxford journal, where we can find articles with different opinions. The article examines the key issues that electronic commerce poses for global trade, the growth and economic impact of e-commerce. There is a link to full version of the article and sources. It covers the deep research in global trade and e-commerce.

SUMMARY

It was challenging to filter the sites which search engines provide. If it was pretty much comfortable with domains as gov., edu, then it was hard with .com and .org. A lot of not relevant information is located on .com sites. Especially it was hard to find something valuable with .org domain. I tried some of the search engines but ended with Google looking for the site I can trust. Looks like Google search better for different domains. From this activity I understood that it is very important to be careful looking for the credible sources on the web. Sometimes it is time-consuming, but worth it.

Unit 8

Internet Public Library (IPL2)

“The Internet Public Library, (IPL), is a merged collection of sites from the Internet Public Library and the Librarian's Index to the Internet. The combination of the two is better that both.”[1]

There is a subject directory, newspapers and magazine, for kids, and for teens directories and special collections created by ipl2. Unfortunately I was able to open only for kids and for teens, the rest leads to blank pages. May be they are still working on the directories.

Search Options the IPL provide:

Wildcard Characters (?,*): ? used to represent one alphanumeric character within a term.  * is used to represent zero or more alphanumeric characters.

Boolean Operators must be capitalized. Used additionally + (Must be)and  -  (NO)sings

Range Searches [1977 TO 2022] – include data; {} – exclude data

Advances Features: Boosting (add importance to a specific term or group of term)^.

                                                Bear^2Tiger^3

Proximity Searches: (to see if two terms are within a specified distance of each other in an article. ~

                                                “Bear Zoo”~6

Fuzzy Searching: modifies how closely a given search term must be matched within the returned results. The default Fuzzy value is 0.5. It is complicated. I don’t like it.

                                                Bear~0.99 is likely only to return such items as Bear and Bears

I would use this search tool for academic research as the sources supposed to be trusted, as they claim and advanced features give more chances to find something worthful. Especially it would be useful for kids, teens, students, and teachers.

Ixquick Metasearch

“Ixquick is a comprehensive metasearcher that queries 14 search tools. Results are ranked by relevancy with information about which search tool the site came from. Ixquick allows keyword searches, natural language searches, and advanced Boolean searches. Pages found in multiple engines are only listed once and ranked by relevancy. Ixquick also has a language feature to for searching non-English sites. Specialized searching includes images, news, and MP3.”[2]

Search options:

Boolean operators are the same as everywhere but must be capitalized. AND OR NO.

Additionally you can use “+” (must be) and “-“ NO

Phrases in quotes, and parentheses can be used.

Fields: you can specify where certain information must appear with fields: +title; +domain; host; site; url; link.

There are many fields to narrow or expand your search: with all the words; with the exact phrase; with at least one of the words, etc.

Duck Duck Go

“Duck Duck Go is a search tool that compiles searches from other sources but maintains the privacy of a searcher by not logging user information. Results are populated by sites that have less advertising and better content.”[3]

They use AND or OR operators but not NO. Instead of NO “-“ sign works to exclude the term.

“” marks around the phrases are used for exact matches on that phrase.

They use \ to go directly to the first search result

They do safe search by default. If you want to turn off safe search for this search, add   !safeoff

There is a good collection of “Goodies” For example:!bang syntax:

                                 !youtube green day can lead you directly to youtube website

You can do any calculation and conversions directly in Goodies; find the date of any event or what happened on the date; the links to any well-known fact; even to count the calories or learn about nutrition in a product; geography facts and language tips.

I bookmarked this site and will use it in future. It is good for every day needs.

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[1] http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/subjdir.html

[2] http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/metatool.html

[3] http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/srchtool.html

Research Question: What statistics prove that electronic commerce has future?

1.       Search statements:

 statistics and “e* commerce” and future

 forecast* and (e-commerce or “electronic commerce”) and future

2.       Article from popular magazine:

Beer, Jeff. "The Future is Mobile." Canadian Business Mar 14 2011: 40-. ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry; ProQuest Research Library. Web. 24 July 2012 . 

This is the article from the popular magazine in Canada. The author writes in business and economic field. The article is worth to use because it provides up-to-date information about the last researches and the opinions about the future of e-commerce and mobile devices.

3.       Research Article from Scholarly Journal:

Sin, Liem Gai, and Ria Purnamasari. "China E-Commerce Market Analysis: Forecasting and Profiling Internet User." Researchers World 2.3 (2011): 1-8. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 24 July 201

The article is published in a solid journal: Researches World. The Information is up-to-date .The classification of the publication is experimental/theoretical .The authors are credible. They are the professors and doctors of world well-known schools. In footnotes you can find the reference to primary sources such as surveys, analysis and studies, and statistical reports. From the citation it is clear that the article contains factual, documented information to reinforce the position.

4.       Article from Newspaper: 

Totty,Michael "E-Commerce (A Special Report) --- the Researcher: John Jordan Spends His Days Thinking about the Future; we Asked Him what He Sees." Wall Street Journal: R.20. Los Angeles Times; National Newspapers Core; The Wall Street Journal. Jul 16 2001. Web. 24 July 2012 .

I chose this article because it is form popular newspaper; the author has more than 600 hundred publications in different periodicals. It is an interview with Mr. Jordan, who is director of electronic commerce research at the Center for Business Innovation, at Cambridge University. 

Summary:

The research statement gives relevant result. I tried both variants: with “forecast” and only ”future”. I need to tell that the results were pretty much the same. The word “data” did not worked well, because it refers to information data either and it expanded my search, so I deleted it.  I narrowed the results by source type and the date of publication. It was helpful. I was researching using the Proquest, as I am familiar with it already and like it. Also, I tried Ebsco, but it was not as convenient as Proquest.

Unit6-2

1. Does anti-smoking advertising by the tobacco industry lead to increasing among youth?

            “anti-smoking advertising” and “tobacco industry” and (youth or young people)

2. What are the similarities between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the current economic problems?

            “Great Depression” and (current or today’s) and econom*

3. How much more can a college graduate expect to earn over someone with a high school diploma?

            college and school graduate* and (earn or salary)

4. What stand does the American Medical Association take on natural medicine?

“american Medical Association” and (“natural medicine” or “alternative medicine”)

5. Should educators use commercial services to combat plagiarism?

            educat* and “commercial services” and plagiarism

My research question:

What statistics prove that electronic commerce has future?

            (statistics or data) and “e* commerce” and future

Summary of the Unit 5:

All research tools are worth to use. They have much in common; we could easily find all required information about the book and check if we can trust the source. For me, Googlebooks is the easiest to navigate, Summit is the best organized and provide most information. Books 24x7 – IT Pro Collection of E-books is confusing but has the most search features. After some practice I think it could be helpful. I would use Cannell Library Book Catalog if I need printed copy or the help of the qualified personnel.