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Vast amounts of information for scholarly research can be found on the web, including books, articles, data, and primary source material. Below are some possible approaches to identifying scholarly sources on the Web.
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Search Engines
There are a growing number of search engines competing with Google.
Google Scholar finds scholary materials including books, articles, peer-reeiwed papers, dissertations, theses, and more from scholarly publishers, universities, societies, governments, and other oraganizations. Some materials are full-text but most must be located in a library or purchased.
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Directories
Both Yahoo and Google have Directory modes which allow you to search for websites by subject category rather than keyword--very useful for focusing a search. Instead of very large numbers of hits with many unrelated sites, directories find web sites that are verified by editors as relevant to your search term.
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Meta Search Engines
Dogpile searches several major search engines at once, eliminates duplicates, and ranks them by relevance including Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more.
Effective Web Searches
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Evaluating Web Resources
Vast amounts of information are available on the web. Becaues traditional filters of information (publishers, libraries, and institutions) have not "approved" large percentages of web-information, web researchers need to critically evaluate such information before using it for scholarly purposes.
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