Ello Guys n gals...Whats up everybody... Now its time for me to update the reflections of week 3 of EIR lesson..It supposed to be on last week due to slight deay and well I'm here to blog about what I had done on the Week 3.
In the Week 3, we are given do tasked to compare Google and Google Scholar. This can help me to compare which sites is effective to search on my related topics.
Ok let me compare between Google and Google Scholar...
Google
Google is a search engine that can search all information we want to search for. Google also not only about search engine, the search engine provide other features such as Everyday Essentials, Reference Tools, local search etc.
The search result size for Google show millions or billions of the results. However some results are not relevant because of not related to the topics we want to search for. Google are more outdated however it’s still has strength and weakness.
Google Strength
The search interface is straightforward, including an Advanced Search option. Google allows user to preview the page before clicking on to the button. By previewing the page, the user will have some sneak preview about website they searching for. Another unique features on Google is, it has functions which allows users to change the location of Singapore, the timing as well as the standard result of the relevant website.
Google Weakness
New sites, regardless of the quality of their content, get short shrift. It takes 2-3 months for the new pages to get into the Google. Then it takes time perhaps years for other "important" sites to discover the new site and link to it; and then months more for the new versions of those pages with those new links to get into the Google index.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is to provide increased access to gray literature as it retrieves more than journal articles and includes preprint archives, conference proceedings and institutional repositories. Google Scholar also includes links to the online collections of some academic libraries. Including these access points in Google Scholar retrieval sets may ultimately help more users reach more of their own institution's subscriptions. It’s also provide Citations.
The search result size for Google Scholar are same with Google as it show millions of result. The Google Scholar also provide current resources too and also relevant. However Google Scholar a bit outdated compare than Google.
Google Scholar Strength
Google Scholar may offer a number of versions of the same article depending on where it was found (the publisher's website, the author's website, a pre-print service, etc). However, always use the Library catalogue to search by title for journals that did not link to the full text through Google Scholar or where you are uncertain which version of an article to use.
Google Weakness
Google Scholar provides no information about which publishers or sites are searched, the extent of the material included and the frequency of updating, while the criteria for identifying an article or site as "scholarly" are still fuzzy.
Overall, I think Google Scholar is more effective compared than Google. The reason I choose Google Schoiar is have an extra features which allows users to choose what types of websites they wanted to read. There are also citation features and at least summaries features too. That can help me to research more effective on my relative topics.
Discussion Forum
Ok now lets move on about discussion forum. We have been tasked to take part in the discussion forum or reply to the post about the related topic that we choose for.
I decided to take part at our local dicussion forum portal SgForums about my related topics.
To make sure i need more information abou t early childhood trauma, I decided to post new topics on Early Childhood Trauma on people's behavior on the ROAD Healch Centre forum board at SgForum.
Since I new and just post my topics i need to wait the reply from other user about my recent post. Hope that someone can reply my post and help me about my related topics research that are very useful.
I felt by participating in a discussion forum, it can help me to do my research regarding about my topics. Before I started to post the topics, I felt very worried as I'm scared that when other user reply my related topics they give me information that are not very useful and out of topics.
Citations and Bibilography!!!!
Why must we have citation and bibliography? Well, for my opinion, I think that, it is important to have citation and bibliography as to prevent plagiarism. This is to acknowledge the authors who have done their hard own work and their effort. It is inconsiderate and wrong to duplicate their hard own effort . It can be use as reference for other to read and keep track back the website too. Just remember whenever we search the related topics on the certain site, it is important to have citations and bibliography.
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