Comparing Resources

I numbered these on a 1-10 scale, 10 being the best.

	Opposing Viewpoints	Points of View	Ebsco
Search - ease of use	6	7	8
Results - relevance and usefulness	9	6	8.5
Saving documents	8	8	8
Citations	7	6	7
Sorting Relevance	8	4	7
Saving Ease	7	9	7
Number of Results	4	6	9

A summary of what's good about each site, and my preferences: I really liked Ebsco-- it had the most results that worked with my topic! All I had to do was type in my search term, and it spit out a ton of valid, important results (that I then emailed to myself.) Opposing viewpoints wasn't really the best search tool for my non-controversial topic... "sleep deprivation vs. mood" doesn't have many arguable points. Points of View was my second- favorite, because of the relevance of the articles I found. All in all, I got about eight resources for my project!

Opposing Viewpoints

When I searched for Sleep Deprivation under subject and keywords, I got the same results. The recommended terms didn't help, as the only other term was sleep deprivation.

When I typed in "Mood and Sleep Deprivation", only three results showed up, but two of them had really good information about studies that have been done.

I definitely noticed a difference between Google and OV! With Google, you type in a term and get six million responses. You then have to sift through all those results to get maybe 50 good articles. With OV, on the other hand, you type in a term and get six pre-filtered results. I think both resources are useful! However, I think I would use more of Google, because I can get to it easier and there are so many results.