As a PhD student, I understand the concern by professors about excessive online citations. However, the future of research will be just that electronic based research with electronic citations because of the economics of maintaining libraries and the costs of books, especially textbooks and research based books. This current discourse reminds me of the concerns by teachers during the 1970's when I was in grade school and parents and teachers complained about the use of calculators, and now nearly every math and science class requires excessive calculator usage because of the element of time. My point is that students should have the fundamentals of great research and practice it; however, we all need to recognize that when Google finishes its work it will simply be too easy and practical not to fully utilize electronic services. The more important key may be that students properly give credit to sources and that the sources be "approved" by the professor. Davis is an excellent person to teach the basics. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Louise Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:27 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [UTKSIS-L] [Air-l] How is the Internet bad for us? (fwd) On 6/22/05, chodge5@utk.edu <chodge5@utk.edu> wrote:
A colleague of mine from Buffalo send these suggestions:
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Davis at Cornell University has done some work on the citation patterns of undergraduate papers and excessive use of Web-based resources and how to break the habit:
Davis, P. M. Patterns in Electronic Journal Usage: Challenging the Composition of Geographic Consortia [Analysis of usage by the NorthEast Research Library Consortium]. College & Research Libraries v. 63 no. 6 (November 2002) p. 484-97
Davis, P. M. The effect of the Web on undergraduate citation behavior: a 2000 update [analysis of undergraduate term papers in microeconomics]. College & Research Libraries v. 63 no. 1 (January 2002) p. 53-60
Davis, P. M., et. al., The effect of the Web on undergraduate citation behavior 1996-1999 [analysis of undergraduate term papers in microeconomics]. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology v. 52 no. 4 (February 15 2001) p. 309-14
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I believe there are also various UK universities doing work in the area of undergraduate plagiarism and the Internet e.g. Oxford Brookes University: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/4_resource/plagiarism.html Also material on 'paper mills' and similar (which operate through the Internet). At Sussex, Diane Brewster is doing doctoral research on (university) students'' perception of ownership of electronic sources (and how this relates to their propensity to plagiarise), though I'm not sure if there are any papers out there yet. Louise Ferguson _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/