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INTERNET RESOURCES
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valuating Web Resources -- Search Engines -- Digital Libraries & Text Archives

 
 
 
 
 
EVALUATING WEB RESOURCES
 
You May Want to Evaluate a Website Before Considering
It to be Authoritative or Before Using it in a Research Paper
 

Who authored this site and what are his/her credentials?
What are the author's institutional affiliations?
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What is the purpose of the site and for whom is the site intended?
Is the site intended for opinion or commentary?
Does the writing style and layout serve this audience?

Is the content controversial, well written and authoritative?
Is there documentation for the information presented?
Does the site have links to similar web pages?
Can you verify the content and claims presented elsewhere?

Is this site sponsored by an organization?
What are the criteria for including material on this site?
Are reviews of this site available?

Is the material current? When was the site last updated?
Is there a date on the page?
Who maintains the site?
Is there contact information?


Is this site a useful supplement to your courses and to your major?

Is the site easy to navigate? Would you like to return to this site?
Are there "dead" or misdirected links on the page?
Are there "Help" files or FAQs?


Can pages from this site be printed?

 

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SEARCH ENGINES
 

The Best Search Engines and How They Work
Metasearch Engines and How They Work

 
 
 
 
DIGITAL LIBRARIES & TEXT ARCHIVES
 
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
 
Digital Book Index with List of Digital Libraries
Links to over 142,000 titles from 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities and private sites; about 100,000 of these books and texts are free
 
Directory of Electronic Text Centers
A list of electronic text centers in the United States; from Rutgers University
 
Electronic Text Center Collections
Holdings include approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.); from the University of Virginia Library
 
Google Books
Links to online books and collections of texts
 
Great Books Index
The "Great Books" in English translation
 
Ingenta
The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications available for online, fax and Ariel delivery; search 25,311,065 articles, chapters, reports and more from 31,856 publications
 
Internet Classics Archive
Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites; mainly Greco-Roman works some Chinese and Persian, in English translation
 
Internet Public Library Serials
Magazines, journals, E-zines; from the University of Michigan
 
New Jour Electronic Journals and Newsletters
Archive list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet
 
Online Books Page
Lists over 20,000 free books on the Web
 
Perseus Digital Library
Perseus is an evolving digital library; its primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible; accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions and lead to new avenues of research; from Tufts University
 
Poetry Archives
An educational resource to aid students, educators, and the curious; a collection of thousands of classical poems to help you recall fond memories or to help create new ones; the database is searchable by first-line, author and poem title by key words using the search feature located on the top right corner of each page
 
Project Bartleby Archive
An Internet publisher of literature, references and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the Web, free of charge
 
Project Gutenberg
the first and largest single collection of free electronic books
 
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet; most sources have been published between 1990 and the present; links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet
 
Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web
Provides links to established scholarly journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees; from the University of Houston Libraries
 
Scholarly Societies Projects
Most scholarly societies websites have tables of contents for their serials; access to these is generally free of charge to the public; some scholarly societies websites also maintain a search engine to the contents of these serials; in addition, it is increasingly common for scholarly societies to publish the full text of their serial publications online; these archives are generally accessible from the tables of contents and search engines at their websites; access to the full-text is generally restricted to individuals and institutions that have a subscription to the serial in question; a growing number of scholarly societies in the sciences have adopted a policy of free access to the full-text of all but the current 12 months of their serial publications; sponsored by the University of Waterloo Library
 
Serials in Cyberspace
Selected sites with electronic journal collections and services
 
SUNSITE Digital Collections
from Berkeley Digital Library
 
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections UWDC
the Council of Wisconsin libraries and UW System's Office of Learning & Information Technology established the UWDC to provide quality digital resources from its academic libraries to UW faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state, and scholars at large
 
Voice of the Shuttle
Web site for humanities research; from the University of California, Santa Barbara
 
Yahoo Electronic Literature
Links and indexes to online books and collections of texts
 
 
DIRECTORIES & INDEXES
 
Argus Clearinghouse
The Internet's premier research library; a collection of topical guides
 
Best Information on the Net
A highly selective directory of Internet resources intended primarily for undergraduates, reflects the ethical and social service orientation of St. Ambrose University
 
Dmoz Open Directory Project
4,830,584 sites in 590,000 categories
 
Galaxy
One of the largest directories, with over 3.2 million listings and 680,000 categories
 
Internet Public Library
from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
 
The Invisible Web Directory
Includes some of the best resources the Invisible Web has to offer from reliable information providers that are not visible to general purpose search engines
 
Librarians' Internet Index
Features high-quality web sites carefully selected, described and organized by a team of librarians; topics include current events and issues, arts & humanities, business, computers, government, health, law, media, people, reference, science, society, social science
 
WWW Virtual Library
The oldest catalog on the Web widely recognized as a high quality guide
 
 



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