\”In this world of instant Internet information, the use of scholarly documents in writing term papers at U.S. colleges and universities has plummeted and the use of undependable Web resources has soared.\”
\”Despite this grab-the-information-and-go attitude, there is good news from the stacks. A Cornell University library sciences study shows that when instructors set minimal bibliographic guidelines for doing research, the number of citations of scholarly materials used returns to levels of the pre-Internet world. Online scholarly resources can range from the Congressional Record to academic research reports.\”
\”The findings are the final update in a longitudinal study, conducted between 1996 and 2001, of the research habits of undergraduate students in a Cornell microeconomics class taught by John Abowd, professor of economics. An article by Philip Davis, a librarian at Cornell\’s Albert R. Mann Library, describing the study, \”Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior: Guiding Student Scholarship in a Networked Age,\” appears in the latest issue of Portal , (Vol. 3, No. 1), a peer-reviewed library-sciences journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press.\” (from Newswise)
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