Kirkwood, P. E. (2012, June), Faculty Publication Checklists: A Quantitative Method to Compare Traditional Databases to Web Search Engines  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21391

\bibitem{asee_peer_21391}
  Kirkwood, P. E. (2012, June), \emph{Faculty Publication Checklists: A Quantitative Method to Compare Traditional Databases to Web Search Engines}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21391

Patricia E. Kirkwood.  "Faculty Publication Checklists: A Quantitative Method to Compare Traditional Databases to Web Search Engines".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21391 Internet.  26 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21391}
  Patricia E. Kirkwood.
  "Faculty Publication Checklists: A Quantitative Method to Compare Traditional Databases to Web Search Engines".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21391 Internet.  26 Dec, 2024

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AB  - ASEE 2012 conference abstractFaculty publication checklists: A quantitative method to compare traditional databases to web searchengines.As specialized webcrawlers like CiteSeerX and Quertle become more sophisticated, they gain recognitionin user communities. It is arguable that these tools may do a better job of gathering references toconference and grey literature than do traditional databases. Librarians need to compare thesedissimilar products as they make collection development decisions and provide instruction. Thetraditional method used to compare databases is based on journal publication lists. These checklists areused to determine depth of content and overlap. Journal title checklists are not applicable whenevaluating web search engines. First, there is no publication list for web crawlers. Second, forengineering related search tools, journal title checklists do not include conference publications,government documents, reports, standards, patents and grey literature. One method used to assessweb crawlers is to compare results of subject based searches to the same search in a traditionaldatabase. Reviewing the number of items retrieved and the appropriateness of a subset of the citationsretrieved can provide a qualitative assessment of how well a search engines performs. However thismethod does not show the depth and breadth of content found. A quantitative method of assessing thecontent gathered by web crawlers to the content provided by the traditional database publisher will beexplored in this paper. A checklist is developed using author publications lists. The checklist isevaluated and validated during a project that compares the content of a computer science specific webcrawler to traditional computer science databases. The paper will also explore the benefits andlimitations of using local faculty CVs to develop the checklist.
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