I just invented another way of citing e-books
1. I agree with Jeremy: direct quotes are easily searchable. 2. For citing ideas, when a 550 page book is a bit too broad ;-) then why not put at the end of the reference the first phrase of the apra. that you are referencing. Such as this random reference: Hunsinger, J. _Why VT Lost to Stanford_. Miami: Orange Bowl Press. e-book: "Wellman's analysis is persuasive". Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________
I think Wellman's suggestion is persuasive. It would be the responsibility of the citer to make sure that she included enough words to be as concise as possible without producing more than a single hit in the cited document. It might be that it is enough, for example, in this case to say: ... | eastern tiger population. It seems that this particular position is well-regarded (Hunsiger, 2010, at "Wellman's"), but there remain skeptics, mainly ... Alex Hunsinger, J. _Why VT Lost to Stanford_. Miami: Orange Bowl Press. e-book: at "Wellman's". On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
1. I agree with Jeremy: direct quotes are easily searchable.
2. For citing ideas, when a 550 page book is a bit too broad ;-) then why not put at the end of the reference the first phrase of the apra. that you are referencing. Such as this random reference:
Hunsinger, J. _Why VT Lost to Stanford_. Miami: Orange Bowl Press. e-book: "Wellman's analysis is persuasive".
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________
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On Tuesday, January 04, 2011, Barry Wellman wrote:
1. I agree with Jeremy: direct quotes are easily searchable.
It always seemed to me that if someone wants to find something from an online source, this is redundant in that they can search for the phrase themselves -- I often do this and don't see why we should clutter bibliographies with this. As others have said, what we need is for e-publishers to make fragment identifiers widely available. As you can see in my book -- all of which will go online in the future -- chapters, sections, and paragraphs all have ids. http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-1 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-1#s1 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-1#p1
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