What are your opinions of people who post non-internet cited sources?

I’m a librarian so I think it’s great to post citations from databases and even – dare I say it? – from books.

My best friend Ralph says that he feels very strongly that is OK to say what you want any time you want…. www.ralph.com

I love it; I can go to my library online and look for it. Lots of publications are in JSTOR, or in google books.

I’ve never heard of Gale Resources…

I like it when people post their sources. Then if it’s something I’d like to learn more about, I can try to find the source and read it. I have access to a really nice online database through my school that I love using to research things.

I admire it, but it ticks me the hell off cuz then I can’t go and check it myself, and I have to just take their word for it. Course, if we’re taking about a school paper and not questions of Fluther, then it’s just admiration.

I prefer it, because it shows a greater depth of understanding when someone has read more than the top five Google results. I often try to stick to things available on Google Books or Scholar though, since they are both reputable and easily accessible.

But then I am constantly doing assignments that need extensive research, so I am used to having to use research-based publications instead of unreferenced material.

In many areas, especially history, older source material is not internet accessible (at least not without charge). That does not make it irrelevant. In some cases such material may be the only supporting documentation for a position.

I will try to use freely accessible internet sources if possible, if only to show credibility. If necessary, I’ll access the paid site and then type out the quotation word for word, citing the source.

Just put a DOI in your post so that someone can find it if they want to. You don’t know who has access to what. I probably have access to every journal database that you do, and can get copies of most published papers through ILIAD.

I see a lot of quips that have links to books available from Amazon. I don’t see any problem with it.

Ahh thanks. I’ve avoided using them because I assumed that people would be cranky to get links to things that they couldn’t immediately see. I also over-assumed that most people didn’t have the resources or knowledge to access this material. I am glad to be wrong on both parts.

just ten years ago schools were docking students marks for only putting internet sources or wikipediea… I wonder what changed

Hehe. Ten years ago, I was having a hard time convincing the high school teachers that online databases were not “the Internet”. I remember banging my head into walls when they would insist upon their students only using hard copies of magazines we had in the library to count as serial sources.

I think posting excerpts with proper credit given to the author and directing the reader to the source of the complete article meets the standards of fair use.

I cite many books using Amazon links to the books.

I think that it’s perfectly acceptable, provided that they tell you where they got it; that’s been the standard MO for a very, very long time. If I ever feel like checking their work, I can go look up a local copy.