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| News Search Engine | A search engine that searches only online news sites. |
| Wire Service | Data shared via APIs. |
| Blogs | An online journal in which the blogger posts entries for public viewing; some blogs contain commentary on current events. |
| Really Simple Syndication (RSS) | A file format that makes it possible to share updates such as headlines, weather updates, and other Web site content via a newsfeed. |
| Feed | A file that contains summaries of stories and news from a Web site. |
| Aggregator | Software that lets you receive newsfeed content. |
| Web Slice | A type of RSS update that is available to the Internet Explorer user. |
| Yellow Page Directories | A search engine that specializes in finding businesses, which are grouped by type and location as in the yellow pages phone book. |
| White Page Directories | A seach engine based on the printed telephone that enables a user to search for addresses and telephone numbers for individuals as you would in a white pages phone book. |
| Petabyte | Approximately 10 to the 15th power bytes. |
| Terabyte | Approximately 10 to the 12th power bytes. |
| Author Identity | A Web page that presents empirical research results, theories, or other information that is the result of a research process should identify the author and provide the authour's background and credentails. |
| Author Affilications | Information to help you determaine the level of independence and objectivity that the author can bring to bear on the research questions or topic. |
| Author Qualifications | The qualifications that should pertain to the material that appears on the Web site. |
| Author Contact Information | The Web site should provide contact information so that you can contact the author or consult information directories to verify the contact information. |
| Domain Identifier | A URL for sites; for claims affiliation with an educational or research institution, the domain should be .edu. A nonprofit organization would most likely have the .org domain and a govenment unit or agency would have .gov domain. |
| User-Generated Content | Content on Web sites created by the user. |
| Web 2.0 | A term that indicates a change in the way people use the Web, just like a version change in a software program indicates that a new release of the software that is better than the old version. |
| Wiki | A Web site that is designed to allow multiple users to contribute content and edit existing content quickly. |
| Public Domain | Information that you can freely copy without requesting permission from the source. |
| Copyright | A right granted by a government to the author or creator of a literary or artistic work. |
| Fair Use | The use of a copyrighted work that includes coping it for use in criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. |
| Plagiarism | The failure to cite the source of material that you use in a published meduim. |
| Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) | Assigned by CrossRef, an independent registration agency, to provide a uniform way to identify scholarly academic journals and similar documents and provide a persistent link to their locations on a Internet. |
