Hey, so it's been a while now since I last updated my blog (More than a month I guess?)This is so as I've been enjoying myself during the term break week and, when school started, projects were all due. You can't imagine the hectic schedule, deadlines and stress. I guess I'm not complaining, I guess I just have myself to blame haha. Well, most of the projects are done now.
Anyway, in week 11, after the term break, we did Practical 6 of EIR, which is all about Invisible Web. So most of you guys must be wondering what in the world does the term "Invisible Web" means. Invisible Web could also be referred to as Deep Web. This is so as the World Wide Web/information content is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines.
So, the invisible web that we visited was none other than the TP SPARK Digital Library Portal. This portal can't be accessed by just any Tom, Dick or Harry (LOL). You have to be a TP student.
Once we entered SPARK, we had to choose 2 relevant databases suitable for our research topic. The 2 databases I chose was EBSCOhost and ScienceDirect. My research topic was the impact of smoking on youth.
For EBSCOhost, the content declared who the authors were and the organisation they come from, thus it’s credible. They showed the methods on how the study was conducted (through 918 adolescent study participants who were followed from the 9th to 12th grade). E-mail address as well as address of organization are stated. Provided statistical analysis and demographics. Provide full pdf.The content declared who the authors were and the organisation they come from, thus it’s credible. They showed the methods on how the study was conducted (through 918 adolescent study participants who were followed from the 9th to 12th grade). E-mail addresses as well as address of organization are stated. Provided statistical analysis and demographics as well as full pdf files.
As for ScienceDirect, it provided the author and the date the article was available. Only provide an abstract, need to pay to get full pdf.
Other than EBSCOhost and ScienceDirect, I also visited ebooks database on OPAC (found in TP's database). I managed to find some information regarding my search topic(mentioned above). I found a book which provides all information regarding tobacco smoking. It provides the electronic version of the book itself. Tobacco use and the related health effects, quitting smoking and Tobacco control and marketing. This is one of the picture I got from the electronic book.
As shown above, the book is very detailed. It provides a wide, diversified scope of tobacco smoking such as how it affects the body (uses illustrations and diagrams to attract people). It also provides the copyright details and author as well as the myths and misconception of smoking.
Well, that's it for today. Stay tuned for the upcoming posts :)
Cheers
