Day 7 Journal

Got my class test 1 done. 15/20 because of some silly mistakes. Not very good but will strive harder next time. Then we were told to do practical 6 which is the start of a new topic. Had a hard time using the sparks online as the system is slow but well, i still have to complete my practical.

ACADEMIC GATEWAY
Ok So here goes on my experience on using Sparks online, Academic Gateway and ITPRO.
When I click on academic gateway, it links me to this SJ library website. This website allows me to looks for catalogs on my research topic I am looking for e.g. books, video or PDF file. Within these catalogs, there is a few links where user can do a research online e.g. PDF. But for books or video, is more of a library source where user needs to borrow them from the library itself.



Gateway doesn’t allow Boolean for searching it webpage. So I had to use the keywords to look for the result. And only 3 results showed in the website. The link is not as relevance as the topic I am doing researching on. Overall, Academic is an online library source website where user can look for statistics, books and video regarding to the relevance topic you are researching on.



TP E'BOOK DATABASE
Using Boolean operator and keywords doesn’t give me any result relevant to my research topic. Base on this database, it looks like more of electronics technology and technical study database and nothing much on other topic about drugs abuse. Beside ITPRO, I also do a check on all collection and the same, nothing relevant to my research is found. The category shown in the webpage doesn’t have a topic related to drugs and my relevant topic.



SPARKS ONLINE
This is a wide range of useful websites where user is allowed to find journals articles from books or magazine and newspaper, on many categories on relevant search. The other category that I’m talking about is more of research on Health sources that link to drug abuse. This category also categories as keywords where it can be link to the database itself for more refine search. This journal is uploaded by people including in the sources with citation, abstract and statistics from a book or other resources. It is more of like Google scholar where user can look for relevance search and research paper and a more updated sources.





No the results are not the same. With different database, they came out with different results. But both searches are classified as journal articles with citation and abstracts from a book including the page number citied from or PDF. Both bases on the latest journal articles will be the top ranking of the page. And both allowed Boolean and phrases







Practical 6 Acivity 4

To me, using database to look for relevance topic is less effective than search engines and meta search engine. Because throuh my experience, the database i have chose to work on doesn't give me a good result base on the relevance topic " impact of drugs abuse on teens". It is more of a library source where people can find books on the relevent subject they want. The category given in the library sources are quite limited.

But regardless of lesser informations and relevence topic than other search engine, meta-search engine and directory, i will still use this database for my diploma. Cause arts contain alot of informations and more of indepth research with might not be able to find in the internet. Which is why the school library is there for us to study or read stuffs like how to draw better. And of course other art stuff related to my diploma.