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The Internet: A Research Tool 

 Subject Directories...web databases that identify some of the "best" Internet sites for research and organize them by academic discipline or topic

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections  - Developed by the Library at the University of California, INFOMINE provides detailed annotations of thousands of Internet sites.     http://infomine.ucr.edu

Librarians' Internet Index - Sponsored by the Library of California, this subject directory offers annotations of  thousands of Internet resources.     http://www.lii.org

Scout Report Archives - Located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer Science and sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Scout Report annotates, evaluates and rates over 23,000 Internet sites.     http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/archives

   Search Engines...two of the best   

Google - http://google.com

All the Web - http://alltheweb.com

For those of you who want to keep up with the ever-changing world of search engines, check out the following site:

Pandia Search Central - http://www.pandia.com

Evaluation of Internet Resources...be especially discerning

"Evaluating Information - Applying the CRAAP Test"  http://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf

"Evaluating Information Found on the Internet"

http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/index.html

Citing Sources...now that you've found them

MLA Style  - Guidelines of the Modern Language Association

  http://www.nwcc.commnet.edu/library/mla.htm

APA Style  - Guidelines of the American Psychological Association   

     http://www.nwcc.commnet.edu/library/apa.htm

 

CSE Style - Guidelines of the Council of Science Editors

http://www.nwcc.commnet.edu/library/cse.htm