Tag: reference
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Reference extract: credibility in academic searching?
I’ve spoken before about the need to teach students how to search, not just by typing keywords into Google, but by being able to validate the search results in terms of credibility. Reference extract is a new project seeking to do just that, provide credible search results by using librarians (of the human variety) to…
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Wikipedia as a reference (part II)
Edit (25/09/08): Here’s an article discussing the use of Wikipedia by students. It’s interesting because of the subject but also because it gives some insight into the research method used to come up with the data. A few months ago I mentioned the fact that the use of Wikipedia as a source of credible information for…
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Knol: a unit of knowledge
http://knol.google.com/k/knol and Wikipedia article on Knol Knol, described as “a unit of knowledge” by the project’s creators, is a new initiative by Google that allows anyone to write an article, called a “knol”, about any topic. It’s a bit like Wikipedia in that respect but is limited to discrete articles with no links between them.…