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Drive Traffic, Increase Links, Michele Gibney, Nicole Grady
Drive Traffic, Increase Links, Michele Gibney, Nicole Grady
Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2020
One of the best ways to drive traffic to an institutional repository site is by adding links to it from other, established sites. This could be your institutional website – adding links from a departmental page to the department’s scholarly work. Or from your social media platforms to a relevant article corresponding with a topical news event. Another option is Wikipedia. Have you considered leveraging Wikipedia’s astronomical base of users for your own ends? With an average of 200 million+ page views a day, Wikipedia is an excellent resource to drive traffic to your IR.
But HOW can you accomplish …
Information Literacy Skills In A World Of Google And Wikipedia, Emily Gover
Information Literacy Skills In A World Of Google And Wikipedia, Emily Gover
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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Five And A Thousand Practical Ways To Use Wikipedia In Instruction, Jean Cook
Five And A Thousand Practical Ways To Use Wikipedia In Instruction, Jean Cook
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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Wigwam Research, Lynne A. Rhodes
Wigwam Research, Lynne A. Rhodes
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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Google Is Not A 4-Letter Word And Wikipedia Is Not An Obscenity, Suellen Adams
Google Is Not A 4-Letter Word And Wikipedia Is Not An Obscenity, Suellen Adams
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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Blogging Your Research: Teaching Students To Critically Assess And Participate In The Culture Of Electronic Research And Writing, Amy Ratto Parks
Blogging Your Research: Teaching Students To Critically Assess And Participate In The Culture Of Electronic Research And Writing, Amy Ratto Parks
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Whether we like it or not, most student writing these days happens through facebook, myspace, twitter, and texting. Though we assume that academic reading and writing ought to be distinct from social writing, it often isn’t. Students will go to Google for celebrity gossip or information on the Civil War and accept the information about both on equal terms. The seemingly simple nature of online access to information requires that we give students concrete tools to critically assess the information they find there. The fact that many students consider Wikipedia as a credible resource is evidence of this. It looks …