“I saw the post about blog content in EBSCOhost. I wanted to let you know that we aren’t opening up our databases to blogs. We have licensed blog content from NewsTex which has been praised for its selection process and has standards for the blogs it licenses.

As far as blogs showing up in search results, blogs will not be co-mingled with search results and given the highly customizable nature of our adminstrative functions in EBSCOadmin, librarians will be able to decide whether or not to include blog content in result lists.

Initially this will impact more business and corporate databases, the searchers of whom are interested in real time information and commentary on current issues and we see blogs as a way to answer that need.”

Still interesting though… I wonder if we can find out more about the “selection process” and “standards” for blog posts. Can students apply some of the same evaluative techniques when they are doing their own research on the Web?

We need to be willing to give this a try – selling blogs as a reliable source, no matter what Ebsco says, could be the issue with some teachers.