Step 3. Use your initial set of sources to develop additional keyword lists to use in searching the UMGC
library databases for professional journal articles, papers, and other scholarly publications (“sources’)
which discuss your chosen emerging application of technology. You must find and report on five (5) or
more Open Sources which you obtained from Internet web pages, social media, etc. You must also find
and report on an additional five or more Open Sources which you obtained from databases which index
professional and academic papers (see https://libguides.umgc.edu/scholarly if you are not sure what
this means). The following UMGC library and/or freely available Internet databases are known to have
suitable professional and/or research-based articles which meet the “databases” as source requirement:
ACM Digital Library https://dl-acm-org.ezproxy.umgc.edu/
Dissertations & Theses (Pro Quest) https://www-proquest-
com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14580
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library https://www-computer-org.ezproxy.umgc.edu/csdl/home
Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/ (required free account to access papers)
ARVIX https://arxiv.org/
Science Direct https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/search
Since the point of this OSINT search is to find information about emerging applications of technology,
your sources must have a publication date of 2018 or later (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). For
papers indexed in Science Direct, you may also use papers that are marked “In Press.”
CSIA 459: Evaluating Emerging Technologies
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When you have finished your research for this assignment, you should have 15 or more well chosen,
high quality, authoritative resources which you will use to meet the content requirements of this
project. At least 5 of those resources must be from the professional literature, i.e. peer-reviewed
journal articles, government or corporate documents or reports, trade publications, etc. See
https://libguides.umgc.edu/credibility and https://libguides.umgc.edu/scholarly for additional
information about evaluating sources.
5. Decide if you need to add images or not (including pictures, charts, graphics, etc.). If you do include
images, you must make sure that each such item has a caption and that the caption includes the in-text
citation for the source of the image (add the source to your list of references). The image must be
readable (in focus, not blurry) and of an appropriate size. Any image or picture used MUST significantly
add to the content and help the reader to understand your analysis. Do not add gratuitous imagery (no
“eye candy” or decorative images). Do not add images just to increase your page count!
Note: if you have captioned items, you must include a Table of Figures after your Table of Contents.