Discerning Citations

Part One:

1. Anderson, T.D. (2006), “Uncertainty in action: observing information seeking within the creative processes of scholarly research”, Information Research, Vol. 12 No. 1, available at: http://InformationR.net/ir/12-1/paper283.html (accessed 24 December 2006).

a)      This is a website.

b)      Copy and paste the URL in a search engine like Google

c)      For this web page you paste the URL hit search and it is the first on the list of many, click on it and to get a printed copy click on file on the top left corner of the page and in the drop down menu select print and follow directions on how to do so.

2. Belkin, N.J. (1980), “Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval”,

Canadian Journal of Information Science, Vol. 5, pp. 133-43.

a)      This is an article

b)      Find journal at WSU tab to see if WSU owns it and not this volume

c)      I could not find this journal volume or article in our library web site so I Goggled it. And found the full article to print. http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~tefko/Courses/612/Articles/BelkinAnomolous.pdf

3. Bilal, D. (2000), “Children’s use of the Yahooligans! Web search engine: I. Cognitive, physical and affective behaviors on fact-based search tasks”, Journal of the American Society for

Information Science, Vol. 5 No. 7, pp. 646-65.

a)      This is an article

b)      Find journal at WSU tab to see if WSU owns it and Yes they do

c)      Ran the journal title in Ulrichsweb found that the journal was in EBSCO Academic Search Complete – went there and searched the article title. It is available in pdf form.

4. Case, D. (2007), Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs

and Behavior, 2nd ed., Academic Press, Amsterdam.

a)      This is an article

b)      I went to Academic Search Complete first

c)      Ran title in EBSCO Academic Complete and found the article. You need to order it here.

5. Chowdhury, G.G. (2004), “Access and usability issues of scholarly electronic publications”,

In Gorman, G.E. and Rowland, F. (Eds), Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era. International

Yearbook of Library and Information Management, 2004/2005, Facet Publishing, London,

pp. 77-98.

a)      This is a chapter in a book

b)      Went to the find a book on the library home page.

c)      I typed in the title of the book “Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era. International Yearbook of Library and Information Management”

Part Two:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (n.d.). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations Statistical Database (FAOSTAT). http://faostat.fao.org/

a)      This is a Web page

b)      This is not at WSU it is on the internet. Type the URL in a search engine and search for the needed information.

Keller, J., & Roberts, M. (2004). Household-level irrigation for efficient water use and poverty alleviation. In V. Seng, E. Craswell, S. Fukai & K. Fischer (Eds.), Presented at the CARDI International Conference on Research on Water in Agricultural Production in Asia for the 21^st Century, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 25 – 28 November 2003. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra.

a)      Presentation at a conference

b)      Search for the conference, “CARDI International Conference on Research on Water in Agricultural Production in Asia for the 21st Century” in WorldCat – then you would have to order the book, through ILLIAD

Carter, M., & Barrett, C. (2006). The economics of poverty traps and persistent poverty: An asset-based approach. The Journal of Development Studies, 42(2). 178 – 199

a)      This is an Article

b)      Run the title of the journal in “Find Journal at WSU”  find the specific volume and order online text through EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete.

Part Three:

TITLE; The Journal of Development Studies

The content type is Academic/Scholarly
It is peer reviewed
It can be found online and in several other data basis such as; Dow Jones Factiva, EBSCOhost, Gale, LexisNexis, OCLC, ProQuest, Scholars Portal, Swets, Taylor & Francis,

 Part Four:

This is timed well. I am trying to redo citations for my History class, so this is coming in handy for me. I have learned how to tell the different citations apart from the others. This week’s activities have been good practice and was engaging. In the beginning I was apprehensive of what to do but am comfortable with the process now.