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Research Methods in an Online World
 
 

 

 

Web Links to Useful Information

Search Engines - How They Work/Charts and Comparisons
About.com's explanation of how search engines work.
Internet Search Engines - University at Albany Libraries' comprehensive list of Internet Search Engines, with descriptions of them and links to them.
InfoPeople Search Tools Chart - A wonderful search tools comparison chart, by InfoPeople of California.
InfoPeople Search Engines Quick Guide
Finding the Appropriate Search Engine for What You Want to Do - University at Albany Libraries' chart to help find images, music, video, news, newsgroup postings, reference sources, etc.
Comparisons: Search engines vs. meta engines vs. directories
Seven Stupid Searching Mistakes - and see http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0328-stupid2.html for part 2 of Seven Mistakes

Boolean Logic/Operators

Boolean Searching on the Internet - University at Albany Libraries' primer on Boolean logic.
BrightPlanet's Boolean tutorial
http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/training/boolean.html
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/lesson8.html
http://www.lib.csubak.edu/infocomp/search/boolean/venn.htm
http://www.psychcrawler.com/plweb/info/help/boolops.html
http://libraries.mit.edu/tutorials/general/boolean.html
http://tarver.mercer.edu/public_services/guides/boolean.htm

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tutorial/adv/advanced3ca.html

 

Evaluating Resources
Arthur Butz' Article on Holocaust Revisionism - In which Arthur Butz refutes the belief that Jews were killed by Nazis during WW II.
Standard Practices for Evaluating Websites - From MiraCosta College Library
Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools - from Cornell University Library
Scholarly vs. Non-Scholarly Periodicals - From Cornell University Library
Scholarly vs. Popular Journals - From MiraCosta College Library
Widener University Library: Evaluating Web Resources
http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/research/evaluating_web.html
UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources
Johns Hopkins University Libraries: Evaluating Information.....

Style Guides
Best Links:
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html#2 (enter this url into your browser)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#Electronic
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/mlastyle.htm#databases
http://www.grossmont.net/Library/reftools.asp#Style

http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html

http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/

http://library.concordia.ca/services/citations.html

http://www.libraries.wright.edu/libnet/referen/citation.html

http://www.douglas.bc.ca/library/style.html

http://libraryweb.utep.edu/ref/citing.html

http://www.lib.montana.edu/instruct/styles
 

Miscellaneous
Glossary of Research Terminology
How the Internet is Changing our Lives

 
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Last Revised 10/23/2003