| "Invisible
College" -information is shared among colleagues and other
experts in the field. |
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Advantages |
Disadvantages |
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Instructors or colleagues are the experts and know other experts.
- Age and experience of the expert.
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- Expert's knowledge may be limited to a specific field of study.
- Dependent upon the expert's attention to keeping up with the
literature and developments within the field(s).
- Age and experience of expert.
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| Citation
"Cycling" - using bibliographies in articles, books, etc. |
- Use article's references to see what
other discussions have been published on topic.
- Finding other author's who are experts
on the subject.
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- Only goes backward in time.
- Dependent upon quality of article for
comprehensiveness in citing literature.
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| Index
and Abstract Databases |
- Good for seeing how much information is
available on the topic.
- Powerful, comprehensive searching
techniques.
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- Must know how to use the databases.
- Databases may only index certain subject
areas, and particular types of material (i.g. journal articles and
books).
- Databases are machines and don't
understand thoughts (i.e. not what the user means, only what the user
types).
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| The
Internet |
- Expanded opportunities for sharing and
accessing
information.
- Increased social and technological
interactivity.
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- Poor indexing techniques, but continues
to improve.
- Lack of quality control: information may be published from
questionable sources.
- Not everything is available on the
Internet.
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