Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Based on what we read about the filter bubbles i would hope that the databases we use would be protected from this. In most cases our research questions would not be something we would normally search or look up. i would think this would be taken in consideration by the "robot." The reason i would think the databases would be protected by this is because most of them the university has to pay for the service. With this said i would think the database has taken this in consideration and has found a way around this. The two databases i serched in class today were PsycInfo and MEDLINE with full text (at EBSCOhost). I found both of these very helpful, but i found MEDLINE more helpful than PsycInfo. I found MEDLINE more helpful because the article and journal talked more on the medical side of things. A lot of the articles in PsycInfo were in different languages, so were not helpful at all. I really had to search for the ones with the best information. I have since changed my research question from the media aspect of Anorexia to the different treatment plans of the disease. I found a lot of information on this topic in MEDLINE. They not only discussed medical treatments,but also therapy options, which seems to play a big part in the healing process.

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  1. I agree. Hopefully the university has found a way around the filter bubbles and we are allowed to see everything that is available. Databases have self filters that we can separate what we want to see and what we don't. we can filter by subject, full text, date, etc.

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