I shortened the title for the subject line from the original one, "Web-Loving Students Can Be Prodded to Cite Peer-Reviewed Works in Term Papers, Study Suggests." One professor did a close scrutiny of student papers, specifically bibliographies, over a period of years. He found that, by making source selection a significant part of the grade, students would use higher-quality, peer-reviewed sources. This article gives more details of the study and recommends more pedagogical collaboration between instructors and librarians.

Unfortunately, I've also found that the most effective way to communicate to *all* the students in my class a principle I consider important is, yes, to make it part of the grade. And while this article doesn't look like an argument against all that shoddy, pseudo-academic trash that passes for scholarship online, I did smell a hint of the assumption that online journals don't have a peer review process, something I talk about a little more here, in case anyone is interested.