Web Searching
Evaluating Internet Resources
UCLA College Library Road to Research provides a list of criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources. Each criterion is explained and examples of various types of Web sites are given.
Analyzing Information Sources, from the Cornell University Library, offers guidelines on how to evaluate information resources properly.
Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals, also from the Cornell University Library, defines and provides examples of scholarly journals and popular magazines. Learn what is the most appropriate resource for academic research.
Using Wikipedia, from the Cornell University Library, offers reasons and explanations for not using Wikipedia as a cited source in an academic paper.
Synthesis: Using the Work of Others, from the University of Maine at Farmington, provides information on citing and avoiding plagiarism.
Help with Research Information Literacy Tutorial, from Maricopa Community Colleges, walks you through the research process, including finding and evaluating sources and avoiding plagiarism.
Introduction to Concepts of Online Searching, created by the library of the University of Illinois at Chicago, demonstrates how to search online.
Search Engines allow searching across the World Wide Web for key words and phrases.
MetaSearch Engines search several search engines at one time.
Subject Directories provide access by topic by organizing Web sites into categories. Yahoo! is the best known of the subject directories and is the largest. Others listed below are more selective, focus on academic topics and give a review of the Web sites they list.
Information about Search Tools
Below is a Web site that describes various search engines. Because the characteristics of search engines change, you may find the descriptions out of date. Reading information offered by the search engine is perhaps the best advice.
Detailed Features of Search Engines From the University of California at Berkeley.
