Research, The Intimidating Beast

“Class, a final research paper will be due at the end of the semester and the topic of your research…

Wikipedia’s Bad Rep

It would not be absurd to say that everyone reading this article, have used Wikipedia as a reference at one point or another. The usefulness, quickness, and accuracy of Wikipedia is incredibly suitable for everyday life. I asked three of my suite mates at Wake Forest University if they…

Defending the Government in the case of Aaron Swartz

It seems ironic that someone might freely write a story on a site, denouncing some of the actions of Aaron Swartz, a computer genius who sought freedom of expression on the internet through his invention of Reddit. While I do believe that…

Mendeley Works…

In this blog post, I am going to discuss the effectiveness of the citation management tool, Mendeley. Mendeley is a free service (fee for over 2GB of storage), which is largely known for its ability to organize a researcher’s sources. Mendeley has the capability to work across different operating…

Spiderman of Knowledge Sharing, Martyr of Open Access

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This article in-tells a response to articles that discuss the authorship of the infamous online fact finder, Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. The site aims to allow internet users to have access to a multi facet of…