In the second class of Organisations and cultures we went to the Library in order to learn and know all the important tools that EAFIT offers to its students such as important databases and academic magazines.
There are many databases for witch the university has subscriptions, and others that are being tested, all of them in different topics, such as economy, technology, marketing, politics, culture, business, etc. in addition the University has approximately 25.000 publications of important academic journals.
All data bases can be accessed by the EAFIT internet connection, or from the library and only 2 databases, EBSCO Host and ProQuest, can be accessed remotely with an assigned user and password.
Data bases are a key instrument to make a valid and good research, not only for this course or any other course but for our daily basis life.
But after this class is quite normal to ask our selves if these effort that makes EAFIT for its students is worth it, isn’t internet the data base for excellence, isn’t internet the superior source of knowledge, and can’t I make any work searching in Google for information?
All thought the answer isn’t a strict no, the truth is that this big effort its very worth because even Google, the world’s best search engine, that has more than 100.000 datasets, can some times yield data and information that is not proved or trustable. the information that Google ahs is not all the time certificated and if we used this info we can make a work based on wrong information. The Data Bases that the university offers us are academic, indexed databases that have been proven right.
There are many databases for witch the university has subscriptions, and others that are being tested, all of them in different topics, such as economy, technology, marketing, politics, culture, business, etc. in addition the University has approximately 25.000 publications of important academic journals.
All data bases can be accessed by the EAFIT internet connection, or from the library and only 2 databases, EBSCO Host and ProQuest, can be accessed remotely with an assigned user and password.
Data bases are a key instrument to make a valid and good research, not only for this course or any other course but for our daily basis life.
But after this class is quite normal to ask our selves if these effort that makes EAFIT for its students is worth it, isn’t internet the data base for excellence, isn’t internet the superior source of knowledge, and can’t I make any work searching in Google for information?
All thought the answer isn’t a strict no, the truth is that this big effort its very worth because even Google, the world’s best search engine, that has more than 100.000 datasets, can some times yield data and information that is not proved or trustable. the information that Google ahs is not all the time certificated and if we used this info we can make a work based on wrong information. The Data Bases that the university offers us are academic, indexed databases that have been proven right.
http://simonwillison.net/2004/Apr/5/whatIsGoogle/
Well done Isabel!
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