+ New on WilsonWeb—Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective: 1913-1983

+ ProQuest’s PRISMA Grows to More Than 100 Full Text Titles

+ Evidenced Based Medicine: Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services Selects Vivísimo to Power Search
Direct to Website: Norwegian Only

+ Beyond Google: How do students conduct academic research? (via First Monday)

This paper reports findings from an exploratory study about how students majoring in humanities and social sciences use the Internet and library resources for research. Using student discussion groups, content analysis, and a student survey, our results suggest students may not be as reliant on public Internet sites as previous research has reported. Instead, students in our study used a hybrid approach for conducting course–related research. A majority of students leveraged both online and offline sources to overcome challenges with finding, selecting, and evaluating resources and gauging professors’ expectations for quality research.

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