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| Research Skills Tutorial | ||
| Participate in this interactive tutorial that guides students through the process of developing a topic, locating information, and appropriately citing sources. ( http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/tut/path.htm ) | ||
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| Types of Information Sources | ||
| This Web page contrasts common information sources, including primary vs. secondary, books vs. periodicals, print vs. electronic, and others. ( http://library.uis.edu/findinfo/types.html ) | ||
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| Critically Analyzing Information Sources | ||
| Identifies criteria for evaluating Internet and literature review sources. ( http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm ) | ||
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| Writing a Literature Review | ||
| Explore this online guide to writing a literature review. Learn how to structure a review, evaluate information, and connect data to other research. ( http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/tut/litrev/index.html ) | ||
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| The Successful Literature Review: Tips and Guidelines | ||
| This Web page provides a concise list of recommendations for how to write a literature review. Includes guidelines for the reading process, note taking, managing information, and the final writing process. ( http://www.vuw.ac.nz/st_services/slss/workshop_studysessions/literature_review.html ) | ||
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| Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) | ||
| ERIC is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ( http://www.eric.ed.gov/ ) | ||
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| U.S. Department of Education | ||
| The U.S. Department of Education Web site. Includes links to department offices, initiatives, press releases, research, and publications. ( http://www.ed.gov/ ) | ||
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| National Library of Education | ||
| The federal government's main resource center for education information. ( http://www.ed.gov/NLE/index.html ) | ||
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| PsycINFO | ||
| PsycINFO is a department of the American Psychological Association (APA) dedicated to creating products that make it easier for researchers to locate psychological literature relevant to their research topics. ( http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/ ) | ||
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| H.W. Wilson Company | ||
| The H.W. Wilson Company publishes nineteen indexes, five catalogs, Book Review Digest, Reference Shelf, Current Biography, and many monographs. ( http://www.hwwilson.com/ ) | ||
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| WilsonWeb | ||
| Wilson offers its indexes in electronic formats, and recently introduced Web-based searching of a majority of its indexes via WilsonWeb. ( http://www.hwwilson.com/Documentation/WilsonWeb/tecfaq7.html ) | ||
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| One of the most widely used search tools on the Web. Input search terms to access relevant online resources. ( http://www.google.com/ ) | ||
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| Go2Net | ||
| The Go2Net MetaCrawler is a metasearch service that combines various existing search engines into one service. ( http://www.go2net.com/ ) | ||
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| Yahoo! | ||
| Yahoo! is a large online navigational guide to the Web. It is excellent for exploring subjects or topics. ( http://www.yahoo.com/ ) | ||
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| AltaVista | ||
| AltaVista is a full-text search engine that helps find specific topics in the gigantic haystack of the World Wide Web. ( http://www.altavista.com/ ) | ||
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| Excite | ||
| Excite is a Web search engine that is particularly good at locating current news articles. ( http://www.excite.com/ ) | ||
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| Lycos | ||
| Lycos was one of the earliest search and navigation sites designed to help people find information more easily and quickly on the World Wide Web. ( http://www.lycos.com/ ) | ||
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| HotBot | ||
| HotBot offers "snapshots" of the Web by indexing every word, link, and media file on more than 110 million Web documents. ( http://www.hotbot.com/ ) | ||
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| Go | ||
| Powered by Google, this search engine offers easy-to-use search and directory services. ( http://www.go.com/ ) | ||
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