At 4:05 pm +0000 27/3/03, Sally Justice wrote:
>What comments do others on this list have please on the following query
>raised with me
>
>> Academic staff have been anxious to find out whether
>> there is any 'official' ruling on referencing web sources which are in
>> another language. For example, if a Chinese student has found
>> information on a web site written in Chinese, should it be translated
>> and referenced just in English or should both the English/Chinese
>> versions be cited?
>>
>> I don't know if there has been any work done on this, but it seems
>> likely to be a growing problem - and maybe we need to put some guidance
> > in our 'Referencing Electronic Sources' help sheet
>>
>
How would they handle references to paper documents that were in
Chinese and not English? They should handle web references in the
same way, but bear in mind there may be no peer review to give
provenance.
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