Can I add a website to the list of sources of academic work
The discussion on this topic began this summer to defend graduation papers at the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University, where I work.
On the one hand, there was a point of view that calling a website a source of information is the same thing as calling a source of information a bookcase. On websites, you can find many different elements: widgets, navigation links and buttons, counters, advertising banners. From this point of view, the sources should be called specific documents posted on the website, and not the website itself. Indeed, historians do not call the source of any archive! Sources for them are materials from the archive.
On the other hand, let's try to define a website. In my opinion, a website is a system of navigationally combined web pages hosted on the same domain or generated by scripts, which are accessed through one domain. Do you agree? If not - wait for objections in the comments. The web-based navigation system looks more like a book or magazine than a bookcase. The journals also have “navigation elements” (content, page numbers), advertising and other elements, except for documents that directly contain information about the subject of the research. At the same time, I was taught to place an article from a journal in the list of sources in the event that I scoop information about a research subject from this particular article, and the entire journal, if I take information about the research subject from the journal as a whole. For example, if I try to identify the main areas of international relations that are of interest to an international organization like UNESCO, it is obvious that for this it makes sense to turn to the periodicals of this organization. And the periodicals themselves (and not just the articles printed in them) can be considered sources of information.
This year, at the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University, a thesis was defended on the topic “Web sites of representations of foreign cultural centers in St. Petersburg as tools for interacting with the public.” Of course, the main sources of information for this work were the websites themselves.
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But if your research, for example, is devoted to the topic “Definitions of the concept“ website ”in public discourse, and you got here from a search engine, having learned that there is a phrase“ definition of a website ”, it is unlikely that you are in the list of sources should be made Habrahabr. Your source is a topic under the heading “Is it possible to add a website to the list of sources of academic work” available at habrahabr.ru/blogs/study/38098
The text is based on my Academic FAQ
On the one hand, there was a point of view that calling a website a source of information is the same thing as calling a source of information a bookcase. On websites, you can find many different elements: widgets, navigation links and buttons, counters, advertising banners. From this point of view, the sources should be called specific documents posted on the website, and not the website itself. Indeed, historians do not call the source of any archive! Sources for them are materials from the archive.
On the other hand, let's try to define a website. In my opinion, a website is a system of navigationally combined web pages hosted on the same domain or generated by scripts, which are accessed through one domain. Do you agree? If not - wait for objections in the comments. The web-based navigation system looks more like a book or magazine than a bookcase. The journals also have “navigation elements” (content, page numbers), advertising and other elements, except for documents that directly contain information about the subject of the research. At the same time, I was taught to place an article from a journal in the list of sources in the event that I scoop information about a research subject from this particular article, and the entire journal, if I take information about the research subject from the journal as a whole. For example, if I try to identify the main areas of international relations that are of interest to an international organization like UNESCO, it is obvious that for this it makes sense to turn to the periodicals of this organization. And the periodicals themselves (and not just the articles printed in them) can be considered sources of information.
This year, at the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University, a thesis was defended on the topic “Web sites of representations of foreign cultural centers in St. Petersburg as tools for interacting with the public.” Of course, the main sources of information for this work were the websites themselves.
')
But if your research, for example, is devoted to the topic “Definitions of the concept“ website ”in public discourse, and you got here from a search engine, having learned that there is a phrase“ definition of a website ”, it is unlikely that you are in the list of sources should be made Habrahabr. Your source is a topic under the heading “Is it possible to add a website to the list of sources of academic work” available at habrahabr.ru/blogs/study/38098
The text is based on my Academic FAQ
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/38098/
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