"I think the distinction between subscription services and "the open Web" is too subtle for a lot of these students :-)"
It sounds like you're spending a good deal of class time on the stuff we try to hammer into them in our information literacy sessions. We suffer from the probable delusion that the time we spend on them-- and the instructors' insistence that they use *scholarly/academic journals*-- sinks in... But how much of it *sticks* once they get further on, we haven't figured out how to test in the upper levels yet.
(We did find out, last year, that they recognize and remember Academic Search Premier, the main general subscription journal index/full text database we pound into them... because when they heard it might be cancelled, they flocked to sign a petition. Made us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Librarians: we're suckers for that stuff.)
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Date: 2008-09-10 02:32 pm (UTC)It sounds like you're spending a good deal of class time on the stuff we try to hammer into them in our information literacy sessions. We suffer from the probable delusion that the time we spend on them-- and the instructors' insistence that they use *scholarly/academic journals*-- sinks in... But how much of it *sticks* once they get further on, we haven't figured out how to test in the upper levels yet.
(We did find out, last year, that they recognize and remember Academic Search Premier, the main general subscription journal index/full text database we pound into them... because when they heard it might be cancelled, they flocked to sign a petition. Made us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Librarians: we're suckers for that stuff.)