Week 7: Periodicals

The revised statement suggestions for my research (thank you Ms. Bullock) is to use asterisks and not quotation mark’s as quotation marks really limited my past search to that specific phrase.

I entered Internet AND History AND  Invent* (as the internet was developed more than it was invented) into EBsCoHost. My database was pre-set to Academic Search Premier. I typed Internet in my first box, History in the AND box as well as Invent in the next AND box. I did not choose a field as I did not see one that would further extend my research by doing so.

My results did not retrieve relevant results. I had misleading results such as “History Innovators” and “Invention Web Site”.

I revised my search again using all the words “Internet History” AND “Who Invented”. This resulted in the first subject being the most useful, titled, “The Birth of the Internet From Two Present at Creation”. Although my source type was ALL RESULTS, I still only had 6 subjects and the remaining were not useful or relevant. Because there were so few result, I could not search types of articles.

I used the words Internet History AND Who Created AND Who Invented without a single result.

I then used Internet History AND Al Gore AND 1980 without a single result either.

Finally, Internet History AND Created AND Invented gave me several pages of results.

a.) Popular Magazine:  “The Al Gore Quiz”

I chose this article because it is a, “Discussion of Gore's statements including his claim to have invented the Internet.”

Works Cited. Leo, John. "The Al Gore Quiz." U.S. News & World Report 129.14 (2000): 16. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Feb. 2013.

b.) Scholarly Journal: “The Big Question: Greatest Thing Since… What Is the Most Significant Invention of the Past Decade, and What Do You Anticipate for the Future?”

I chose this article because it is a review of the greatest inventions of the past decade and include, “Web 2.0, mobile phones, mobile banking, the Internet social networking sites Facebook and Myspace and the business model based on open innovation. “

Works Cited. Frederick Balagaddé, et al. "The Big Question: Greatest Thing Since… What Is The Most Significant Invention Of The Past Decade, And What Do You Anticipate For The Future?." World Policy Journal 28.3 (2011): 3-7. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Feb. 2013.

This activity was helpful in reviewing the use of the Clark Library databases even further. Especially since I have many mower years of schooling. Finding source types (magazine, newspaper) was beneficial to my future research needs. I am still at a loss as narrowing down my subject words, perhaps I just have a general subject but it seems there would be a plethora of articles regarding the invention of the internet (or creation).