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CSC 150 Ethical, Legal, and Professional Impacts of the Digital Age: Finding "Good" Resources

This guide provides an introduction to library resources for research in ethical issues in computer professions.

Considering what you have found. Is it any "good"?

Authority - Is Constructed and Contextual

  1.  Who is the author?
  2. What is the author's affiliation?
  3.  What are their qualifications related to this subject?
  4.  Where is it published 
  5. Let's talk about peer review
  6. Where did you find it?
  7. Have others cited it in their work?
  8. What resources did the author use?
  9. Currency. 

An example:

Another example:

MathGen

It can happen:

How three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals

Hundreds of gibberish papers still lurk in the scientific literature

The journal Nature is published by Springer, by the way.

Authority - A Complicated Idea

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