Using Wikipedia Wisely
Channel: 1LIONTV
Date: 2012-03-16

How to use Wikipedia for scholarly research. Emphasis is given to using Wikipedia as a finding aid. The author discourages students from directly citing Wikipedia entries. Instead, the author illustrates how Wikipedia articles can lead users to authoritative sources and expose useful search terms for use in library databases and catalogs. 3:45 min. 

Created Jan 24, 2008 using Camtasia Studio. The Camtasia Studio source files and .swf file for this tutorial are available from the ANTS repository at the University of Calgary: https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/45233

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