Background Information
1. Microbiology
2a. Microsoft Academic
b.
–New cases of antibiotic resistant microbes in India
–Methods for inactivating E. coli chromosomal DNA
–Antibacterial properties of essential oils
c. Subtopics in microbiology are food microbiology,
epidemiology, virology, environmental science, infectious disease
d.
What are novel bacterial virulence inhibitors that may be
used to treat infections?
How can microbes be used to synthesize organic compounds?
What is the relationship between the microbiota genome and
human DNA?
e.
Distinctive– Recombinant technology
Broad– Microbiology
Narrow– biosynthesis
Related– engineered bacteria
Website Evaluation
2. Domain- .gov. This is a federal government site
3. Authority- For the website, there are no author names.
But there are organizational names – National US Library of Medicine and
National Institute of Health.
For the article on the website, there are 4 author names
present. There is an “Author Information” link that gives the company name, address
and an email address. Author credentials are not given.
4. The article on the website was published on July 30th
2010 in Science. The full text is not
available, but there is a link to Science
website where it can be accessed with registration. I would consider this page
current and updated.
5. This page seems credible to me because it is a federal
government site that is hosting a peer reviewed academic paper. The website
shows how many times the article has been cited, which means it is a relevant
paper. The website is a host for peer reviewed papers. It is not biased or trying
to argue a specific point.
Reflection
This exercise helped me get access to other types of search
engines that provide useful background information about microbiology. I would
have gone straight to google, but Microsoft Academic search engine was very
useful for me to get ideas about the direction I want to take my research
paper. In the future, I will make sure to use a variety of search engines and
distinctive, broad, narrow and related words.
Hi Danny, nice job on this. I'm glad you found a useful alternative search engine. The article you found seems to be an unusual case where the researchers are affiliated with a private company and not with a university. It might be worth looking at what the company does, in case there is a possible conflict of interest. Just FYI, you can also search PubMed content through Medline from the library's database list, and this will give you access to articles that are not publicly available.--Sam
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