Information Research Weblog

According to book entitled "Research in the Digital Age" written by Leslie F. Stebbins I will focus chapter 4:Primary Sources: Online Tools & Digitalized Collections. This chapter explains the importance of accessing primary sources online versus the orginal paths that were taking to obtain primary sources. Nowadays, accessing primary sources is as easily as checking your email. Primary sources are located on online databases but the struggle lies trying to search correctly in order to access those correct primary sources. This books helps the researcher search information about the particular topic by search terms. In this chapter, the author provides the reader with a list of potential online databases a researcher can access primary sources. Another struggle might be is having the correct passwords and/or username in order to access the online database itself.