my rap session, with ken johnson, took about 8 minutes. this is not a bad thing; ken came with exactly what i was looking for, which was a list of the major relevant journal/article databases in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. i think he was surprised that i had such specific requests for research help, and it gave me a boost of confidence to be able to show him that i had already begun searching on several of the databases he suggested and that i knew what i was doing. his lists of social science and humanities databases were especially helpful, since i have yet to do much searching outside of the sciences specifically. now i know where to look.
we also verified that my iLLiad account was still active and that i could remember my login and password. ken's other suggestion was to directly contact the professional/academic associations for each discipline i wanted to investigate and simply ask if there was anything like an "official" stance or theoretical perspective on the UFO/ET question, or at least those aspects of it with which each discipline would deal. i had thought of contacting individual researchers, but not these organizations. how cool will it be to write an association of physicists and ask how they treat journal/conference submissions concerning UFOs?!
ken was unable to answer one question i've come across: is there an established citation style for quoting a researcher's personal blog? is it of the same status as a website? (is the content of the same status?) i find that many physicists will openly speculate on the matter of UFOs on blogs...perhaps as an alternative to "publishing" on the matter?
does anyone know what MLA doctrine has to say about blogs?
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
rap session
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http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/mla.html#Blog_entry_
hopefully that will help some. it is interesting how established ideas about how to express ideas (MLA style, AP article style, academic publications etc) must struggle to keep up with "internet revolution." i remember in early high school when some teachers still didn't know how or if it was academically sound to cite an online article.
it is interesting that most tech firms would rather hire kids fresh out of college than train and retrain their employees (across a really wide spectrum of jobs!) because things are changing so quickly.
also, i could use a beer sometime soon. y tu?
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