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encyclopedia
A reference work that summarizes knwledge found in orginal form elseware and provides an overview of subjects
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general encyclopedia
a refrence work that attempts to cover all important subject areas of knowleage
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specialized encyclopedia
a refrence work that delves deeply into one subject area, such as religion, science, art, sports, or engineering
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almanac
a refrence work that contains facts and statistics in many categories, including those that are related tohistorical, social, political, and religious subjects
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fact book
a refernce work that includes key information on a given topic
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atlas
a collection of maps, text, and accompanying charts and tables.
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interview
a type of communication conducted for the purpose of gathering information
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working bibliography
an in-process list of source materials used to support the claims made in a speech
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fabrication
The making up of infromation, such as falsifying data or experiments or claiming a source where none exists
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library portal
an entry point into a large collection or fresearch and refrence infromatin that has been selected and reviewed by librarians
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virtual library
a collection of library oldings abilble online
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invisible (the deep) Web
the portion of the web tat includes pass-protected sites, documents behind firewalls, and the contents of proprietary databases
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information
data set in a context for relevance
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propaganda
information represented in such a way as to provoke a desired response
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misinformation
informatin that is false
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disinformation
the deliberate falsification of information
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domain
the suffix at the end of a web addres that tells you the nature of the website. a tilde (~) in the address usually indicates that it is a personal page rather than part of an institutional website. this can help assess the credibility of a site
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tilde (~)
a symbol that appears in the domain of a eb address; it usually indicates a personal page rather than an instituional website
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search engine
using powerful software programs, this scans millions of web documents that contain the keywords and phrases you command it to search. A program then creates a uge index from the web pages that have been read, compares it with your search request and returns matching results to you usually in order or relevance
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individual search engine
a debate in which one person takes a side against anotehr person
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meta-search engine
a search engine that searches several search engiens simultaneosly. e.g dogpile and metacrawler
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specialized search engine
a search engine that searces for information onlyon specifc topics
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subject (Web) directory
a searchable databse of websites organized by categoreis
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paid placement
the practice of paying a fee to a search engine company for inclusion in its search results and a guranteed higer ranking within those results
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paid inclusion
the pratice of paying a fee to a search engine company for inclusion in its index of possible results, with out a gurantee of ranking
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advanced searching (field searching)
a search tool in most internet search engines that target specific search parameters to narrow search results
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oral citation
an oral acknowledgment by a speaker of the source of speech material that is deriveed from other people's ideas
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source reiability
the qualities that determine the value of a source, such as the autor's background and reputation, the reputatioin of the pulication, the source of the data, and how recent the refrence is.
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source qualifier
a breif description of the source's qualifications to address the topic
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