Meeting Sept 17 4-5 PM

Discussion of Google and its impact on research.

Present:

Brad Sietz

Suzanne Gray

Sara Memmott

Larry Kolopajlo

Margaret Best

Sarah Fabian

Bob Stevens

Susann DeVries

Paula Storm

Others who are interested in participating in this project:

Keith Stanger

Julia Nims

Elizabeth Buccerelli

Possible projects:

How do experts and students search for and evaluate web sites ?

Use of Google and Google Scholar as a substitute for fee-based databases. Compare the quality of work submitted and resources used.


Joe Scazzero in FDC can help us with the design of our study.

If we used students we have to work with IRB.

ACTION: Literature search is first thing to be done