Now that Mable has a list of key concepts and terms, she feels more confident to find sources that she can use for her final paper. To do this, she's going to consider a variety of sources including web sources and library sources. Mable goes back to Google to try several different searches with her keywords: 

As Mable explores the Google Search results, she clicks on a few websites until she finds one or two relevant sources. Mable continues to try various searches in Google, referring back to her mind map for additional keywords, until she wants to find some books and peer-reviewed articles for her paper.

When searching on the internet, you'll come across a variety of source types: 

• News or magazine articles
• Blog posts 
• Website with content such as:
  • Government websites
  • Nonprofit websites
  • Company websites
• Social media posts
• YouTube videos 
• Open Access peer-reviewed scholarly articles

There's going to be some overlap between the types of sources you'll find online and the library, but there are sources that are provided through the library that you can't get elsewhere. For example, if you come across a paywall, the library can work with you to get access. These types of sources include:

• Books
• Peer-reviewed scholarly articles
• Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other types of reference sources
• Trade publications
• Documentaries 
• Primary sources
• Sources from other libraries shared through Interlibrary Loan

Reflect:

1. Think about the topic you're researching. What kinds of human biases could be impacting your search results? How so?
2. Consider the similarities between algorithms and generative AI (like ChatGPT). As human biases impact algorithmic search results, how might they impact the "information" generative AI assembles? How might that change the ways you think about and use AI?

• Searching and evaluating sources on the web will prepare you for finding information after graduation, when you will no longer have remote access to UMD library resources.
• The process of scholarly publishing, by which library resources are produced, often excludes non-academic voices and perspectives. 
  • Whose voices are being left out? Why?
  • Where can you look to find expert stakeholders outside of academia?
• Generative AI, like ChatGPT, is a not a reliable source of information. Instead of creating or synthesizing information, it is simply choosing the next most likely used word.

If you like to search in Google Scholar, you may have run into paywalls, where you've been prompted to pay to access a resource. Fortunately, there is a way you can connect Google Scholar to the UMD Library in order to get around many of those paywalls: