With Web research, it is possible to bypass the quality control, selection, and expertise traditionally supplied by libraries. Students naively think they are expert researchers and rarely know how to exercise critical judgment when it comes to Web resources. Grimes and Boening conducted a survey involving two English 102 classes. It turned out that neither the faculty members nor the students really knew much about sophisticated Web research appropriate for term papers. Possible solutions include addressing the ignorance of both college instructors and students when it comes to Web research.
Libraries have to make efforts to make sure quality information is found by researchers.
Libraries must emphasize how to evaluate Web sites. Libraries need to teach better search strategies and collaborate more with faculty. Libraries need to break down the research process into small steps to help students understand. Even electronic journal subscription costs have continued going up. Lucio wanted to see if there has been any effect on the accreditation process by the advent of electronic fulltext journal access since it appears that higher education accreditation agencies are not taking electronic access into account.