And that's not all. Students may also be citing listservs, newsgroups, gophers, online serials, etc. National Institutes of Health. Faculty members across the country sometimes choose to check sources students have cited. Checking URLS is a challenge.
Sites also come and go.
For this reason, we recommend including the date the connection was made to that site, recognizing however that the page may be changed subsequently. There is currently a dispute in the Shetland Islands about the right of one organization to link their page to another site without permission. The lines of ownership are becoming blurred, yet, we still require students to credit their use of pages and other Internet sites. A faculty member recently mentioned that a student said she couldn't complete the paper because the Internet didn t have anything about X. Students increasingly turn to the Internet for all the answers. Sometimes it is a good place to which to turn.