Reflection of Week 3 (b)

For the past few weeks, I have been studying son ome articles and documents regarding the topic “Original and Licensing Software”. However, almost all the articles that I get are based on the issues that happen in developed countries such as United States and United Kingdom. This week, we are assigned to write a report based on the issues that happen in Malaysia. To complete our report, we need to look for some references from UKM Library, Google Scholar and also Google Books.

UKM Online Library:

We are asked to get at least two articles from UKM Online Library. UKM library has subscribed Sage articles. Sage web page contains a lot of useful articles. At first, I log into Sage web page directly without log in to UKM library first and I found that I need to pay for the articles. Only after that, my course-mate told me that I need to sign in to UKM library first so that I can view the articles. Besides that, we are unable to sign in to UKM online library as we do not register an account for that. Luckily, our coordinator from UKM, Dr. Siti Fatimah has kindly given us a username and password and it enables us long into UKM online-library.

I find that UKM Library is an online-library which is well-organised. Also, lots of useful documents are available on the UKM online library.  Hence, I really hope that our institute can also come out with an online-library so that all the teachers trainees here can access to it at anytime and anywhere.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. (About.com). Articles that we can get from Google Scholar are more authentic. We just go the scholar.google.com, and we can search for numerous articles that we want.

Google Book

Google book is another search engine which is very useful. We do not need to waste our money on ordering and purchasing the books. We just need to sign in by using our Gmail or Google account and go to the web page books.google.com. We can search for the desire books and save it inside the library. The next time we visit Google Books web page, we will be able to view the books directly that we have saved inside our library.

What have I learned?

Original licensed software and pirated software is a very contradict issue in Malaysia. Malaysia government is trying to protect the Intellectual Property Right and try to crack down shops which sell pirated software. However, pirated software also plays an important role in Malaysians’ life. As we all know, Malaysia is a developing country and most of the Malaysians do not afford to buy original software. However, we should not be left out in the era of technology. We need to use all those technology to make our country and society reach its development. Hence, the only way to curb this is by using pirated software.

            Therefore, I really hope that government can comes out with initiatives to solve this problem. Just like what we have mentioned in the essay, government can consider giving subsidy on buying original software to lighten the burden of Malaysians.