Print+vs.+Digital

=Print vs. Digital Publishing=


 * Print**


 * printed documents have a tangible, physical form (we can pick up and feel a magazine or journal or book in our hands)
 * this tangible nature also gives an edition or revision a permanent nature
 * its usually possible to assign a date of publication to a work, and if there are revisions of different editions of a work, it's possible to date and look at the revisions
 * if a new edition of a printed work exists, that doesn't mean that older editions or versions were destroyed


 * Digital**


 * don't have a tangible form
 * it's relatively easy for an author to publish a work (the work usually only needs to be in a certain directory on a computer that functions as a Web server.
 * it's easy to modify or revise a work
 * when a work is revised, the previous edition is usually destroyed or overwritten with a new version - the most recent version may be the only one that exists - therefore the version you cited may not exist anymore
 * it is therefore necessary to include the date you accessed or read a work you listed in a citation
 * you may want to keep a copy of the document in a file or print a copy to provide documentation if someone answers your questions


 * Ways to find out when a page was modified**


 * to find the date a work was last revised, see if the date is mentioned as part of the work; you will often see a line like **Last modified: Tuesday, March 2, 2010** in a Web document, usually at the bottom of the main page
 * you may also see something like this at the bottom of a page: **Copyright@2007-2011**
 * if you don't find this information on the Web page or you want to verify that date that is cited, you can try this technique for determining the date of a Web page. When you have a page loaded in your browser, type the following line of JavaScript code directly into the location bar: **javascript:alert(document.lastModified)** - this will activate a pop-up box that displays the time stamp
 * if you are unable to determine the date of the page, you can indicate this in the citation by inserting "n.d." in the appropriate place


 * Determining Web Page Titles**


 * the title is what shows up as a hyperlink in the search results i you use a search engine
 * you may also find the title by selecting **View/Page Info,** or **View/Page Source**; the title is specified in the HTML source for the page and doesn't necessarily show up in the text of the document as you view it with a browser.
 * there are cases when the title is uninformative or not descriptive; in these situations, the main heading can be used
 * some documents have no title (If a document doesn't have a title, you can construct one by using the major heading or the first line of text. You should enclose this title in square brackets to show that you created it.


 * Source:**

Hartman, Karen and Ernest Ackerman. Searching and researching on the Internet and the world wide web. Sherwood, OR: Franklin, Beedle & Associates, 2010.