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(See
the Campus Resources page for services
available through EOU)
Web
and information literacy
- Evaluating
Web Resources (very useful resources
from Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate at Widener University) We're
all used to reading books, watching films, etc. Evaluating whether
you've found a gem or a dud on the Internet can be more vexing,
especially if there is information there you plan to include in
an assignment you're doing.
- Thinking
critically about the Web (by Esther
Grassian, a librarian at UCLA)
- Penn State University
library primer
on using Web resources (hate to sound like a broken record,
but another one well worth the time to go through)
- Penn State University
library tutorial
on information literacy (I promise you'll pick up nuggets
of wisdom if you take the time to do some of this)
- PSU library tutorial
on citing your sources (recommended reading . . . )
- Information
literacy links (compiled by Drew Smith, librarian at the University
of South Florida)
Two
courses offered by Pierce Library personnel may be of interest.
The 100 level course deals with using the library's many resources (becoming
an expert at this will save you hundreds of hours over your time here).
The 300 level course deals more with information literacy, and there
are few skills that will serve you better when you leave here than being
very information literate.
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News media literacy:
Here is a link
to a page with some pretty good alternative sources of news media.
If you're watching Fox News, CNN, any of the networks, and not getting
around, you're basically seeing what corporations want you to see--commercials
sprinkled with entertainment.
More general:
Search engines and related
links
- google (has many many many different kinds of searches--news, images, government documents, etc. By far the best search engine for general public use)
- Hot
bot
- Yahoo
(Yahoo is technically a directory--catalogued
by humans rather than Web-surfing robots--as a result, the quality
is good, but if you want recent stuff it may be a couple months
behind)
- Teoma
(a new generation search engine--worth
checking out)
- Dogpile
(this is a meta search engine--it
searches multiple search engines--can be hard to read but it
will show you how different the results from different search
engines can be)
- Vivismo
(a new generation meta search engine)
- advanced
book exchange (network of used bookstores)
- search
engine watch (a web site with information
about searching, search engines)
- Search
Adobe PDF -- this search engine returns
ONLY pdf documents on the Web--potentially a source of full-text
documents (but it may take some practice to figure out how to
use it efficiently--library resources are a better first bet)
- ditto.com
(if you're looking for images on the Web--takes
a while to figure out how to use efficiently, though)
- web
searching tutorial (from University
of South Carolina)
Even more general:
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