Using Search Engines
Getting to the truth:
- FactChecker; check out your suspicions
- Snopes.com Great site for getting facts straight.
Evaluating web sites
- Directory sites:
- Librarians' Index to the Internet. Indexed and annotated subject list, with related topics.
- Yahoo: a directory of sites. Good place to start if you have a particular or exact subject in mind.
- FederalWorld Reliable site for finding the huge amounts of government information on the WEB.
- USA.gov a good gateway to government sites.
- Search engines:
- Google: Excellent top rated search engine, ranks pages by the quality of links.
- Google Scholar : Offshoot of Google, restricted to scholarly papers.
- Google Books: Find entire books or sections of books.
- Scirus: Search engine restricted to science sites, sponsored by Elsevier. They have permission to crawl a number of proprietary databases, such as ScienceDirect.
- AlltheWEB: Claims to have the largest number of sites covered.
- Ask: allows you to ask your question in plain English.
- Mamma another nice mega-search engine, ranks best results regardless of source.
- Hotbot large search engine, one of the best indexes on the WEB; can use fill-in template.
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Office: Lydon Library 103
Phone: 978-934-3209
OR Main Reference Desk 978-934-3213
Fax: 978-934-3014
Send Email
Subjects:
biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, earth sciences, RefWorks, E-journals
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