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Finding Websites


There are a lot of Web Sites out there, and some are not very useful. Use INFOMINE to find sites that have been carefully selected for usefulness.		Google can sometimes be the perfect place to go! Tips: Use " " around words to find them together + in front of a word requires it to be in the results. check out the advanced search options!		Yahoo is a good place to look for general sites on general topics. (e.g. Einstein or bowling). For searching, the Google tips apply to Yahoo as well.

Navigating the web - tutorials:

Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL
(UC Berkeley Teaching Library Internet Workshops)
Powersearching Google (PPT slides)
TILT: Information Literacy Tutorial
(The University of Texas System Digital Library)

Evaluating Internet resources - checklists:

Web Evaulation Criteria
Judging Quality on the Web
A good place to start, from the UCLA University Research Library Reference Department.
Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
(UCLA College Library)

Citing Internet resources:

Columbia Guide to Online Style - available at Rivera and Science Reference
Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association
Citing Sources from the Internet (MLA Style)
Electronic References and Scholarly Citations of Internet Sources: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library

Last modified: 10/5/2010 3:25 PM by M. Potter