Team AA group of university students and search engine engineers who say that for doing research for academic writing projects, it should be enough to consider information gathered from freely available on-line search tools (such as Google or DuckDuckGo) rather than requiring information be gathered from traditional academic search tools (either search tools available within the University library or libraries maintained by professional associations). The students argue that the freely available engine results cover more possible sources, from a wider and more timely set of information resources, and are often easier and less expensive to access.
Team BA group of education professionals, computer science professors, and University librarians who believe that research for academic writing projects should be primarily based on source material gathered through academic resources available through University libraries or on-line libraries associated with professional associations. The group argues that the curation of resources provided by academic and professional association librarians offers both a needed historical perspective, often including a first source for ideas, as well as critical curation of the vast amounts of raw information available on the internet. They argue that librarians and association professionals that do the curation provide a service that helps to eliminate much of the misinformation that seems to abound on-line.