Summary

This unit covered a lot of information.  I did not realize there was so much difference between the General Encyclopedia and the Subject Encyclopedia.  I can now see how much they differ with the respect to the specific subjects and scholarly sources that are stated in the Subject Encyclopedia and the more general overall information in the General Encyclopedia.   The comparison between using the GVRL and Wikipedia was very interesting.  I had no idea how confusing it would be to cite from the Wikipedia. The information is so vague and lacking and the fact that you can change the information is unbelievable.  It really made me think that Wikepedia is more of an opinion cite then a factual cite. Where as the GVRL was so easy to cite and it had hard facts from reliable sources.  I always wondered why there were certain web sites you could not access.  Now I know the reason why as explained in the Deep/Invisible Web tutorial.  It was explained very clearly using the book from the library scenario.  If the libraries pay a lot of money to get this information and have it in their database, then I can now understand why a web cite may not have that certain book you are looking for.  However, as stated things are changing so fast that one day that information may be available.

Over all I thought this Unit was very informative.  It really put into perspective the way to document research and what to look out for.