Activity 6 Reflections

a) I find that both the invisible web (databases) and search engines such as meta-search or subject directions are equally effective, depending on what kind of sources we re looking for.

The databases is more suitable for searching statistical reports and up-to-date newspaper articles. The results will be at least 80% relelvant to our research topic and the sources and articles are highly reliable because their sources are from newspaper that are publish around the world. Thus, it will be good for research work.

Search engines work fine as well, however, it shows too much search results which may hit million of results and most of them aren't even relevant. The sources may not be reliable because they may give you the information that you need but the sources may come from people's opinion (eg. forums, social network,) so it is important to check more than one sources to confirm our research results.

b) I will use EBSCOhost for my research topic. My research topic is 'Roles and relevance of traditional practices in modern society'. EBSCOhost is a great research tools because it consists of convenient features to help us search specificly for our sources and results. It has features that asked for the publishing date of (article/journal/abstract/bibliography/book/case study etc....) to choose which one we would like to search for. It covers almost on any topics and the sources mostly reliable. 

c) I will use LEXISNEXIS for my course, Moving Images (Video). LEXISNEXIS is a database for us to search for newspaper articles locally and internationally! We usually need to read newspapers on movie reviews, the latest news of any productions (locally/internationally) , the arts development in Singapore as well as Life! from Straits Times. This is so that we are updated on the film industry and the direction we can venture in the future.