Practical 6 Reflection

Today's practical we learn alot about invisible websites and library databases. Although i have already learn how to use them before in a library workshop when i was in year one, this lesson help me refresh my memories on how to use a database to search. There are so many information online that we cannot access through normal search engines and may require training to get access. However, these websites need to pay to use, and it can cost a huge sum of money for good service like GMID.

Fortunately, we have access to certain databases like the one from Tp's Spark, which is paid for by Tp for the students. When using this database, i find that the resource is very relevant and very useful for my research topic. Why youth smokes.. They have the answers with statistics and actual figures. A real useful tool for research as we can have full text document of the article or book. There are articles, reports by professionals, statistic all up there, all we need to do is to search using the right method. Some websites are kind of hard to navigate, they are complicated and not user-friendly, some are like a combination of search engines, directories and scholar, others have so many preferences to set and filtering the search results.

Related -> Relevant -> Reliability

When it comes to internet research, there are some that provides information that are related to topic but irrelevant, others provide relevant information but we might doubt the reliability. From my point of view, invisible web is where the highest level of search comes in, it is a wonderful search engines and the information there are almost 100% RELIABLE.