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(See
the Campus Resources page for services
available through EOU)
Alternative
News Sites (you
may have to subscribe to some of these, but it's free; and for gosh
sakes be careful--consumption of any of these sites may lead
to permanent attitude alterations . . . )
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)
- How to
find government documents (by Diana Gleason, reference librarian
at Pierce Library)
- 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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More
general:
Search
engines and related links
- google
(the best, IMHO)
- northern
light
- 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--highly
recommended)
- 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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