A COMTECH98 seminar presented by J. Pennelope Goforth of CybrrCat Productions!

Panning for Information:
Research Resources

Search Engines | Evaluating Sources | Citing Electronic Sources | More Good Stuff

Search Engines
  • Alta Vista
  • Collectanea
  • Excite
  • HotBot
  • InfoSeek
  • Lycos
  • Magellan
  • Northern Light
  • Open Text
  • Point
  • WebCrawler
  • Yahoo!


Research Using Internet Resources

The following links offer advice to consider when evaluating resources found on the Internet -- and might be able to help you avoid making embarrassing mistakes by trusting unreliable information sources.
  • Evaluating Internet Resources: A Checklist (from UC-Berkeley)
  • Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources
  • The Information Quality WWW Virtual Library
  • Evaluation of Information Sources
  • Truth, Lies, and the Internet (a C|Net feature article; includes a sections on truth-seeking on the Net and an Internet lie detector test)
  • Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (from Esther Grassian at UCLA)
  • Evaluating Information on the World Wide Web (from the University of Puget Sound)
  • A Lexicon of Critical Questions (questions to ask in analyzing cultural and historical materials in electronic form; from Randy Bass at Georgetown University)
Citing Electronic Resources
  • APA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources (from Janice Walker at the University of South Florida)
  • MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources (from Janice Walker at the University of South Florida; endorsed by the Alliance for Computers and Writing)
  • Kate Turabian / Chicago Manual of Style Guidelines (From Lehigh University)
  • Electronic References and Scholarly Cites of Internet Sources (from the WWW Virtual Library; edited by Anita Greenhill of Griffith University)
  • Citation Style of Electronic Documents (from the Thomas Parry Library at the University of Wales Aberystwyth [UK])
  • A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities (from Melvin Page at East Tennessee State University)
Email, Listserv, and Newsgroup Citations
Janice R. Walker has a simple formula:
Give the author's name or alias (if known), the subject line from the posting in quotation marks, the date of the message if different from the date accessed, and the address of the listserv or newslist, along with the date of access in parentheses. For personal email listings, omit the email address.

Examples: 
 
     Bruckman, Amy S.  "MOOSE Crossing Proposal."  mediamoo@media.
          mit.edu (20 Dec. 1994).
     Seabrook, Richard H. C.  "Community and Progress."  cybermind
          @jefferson.village.virginia.edu (22 Jan. 1994). 
     Thomson, Barry.  "Virtual Reality."  Personal email (25 Jan.
          1995).
Just a little bit more good stuff:
Citations, Plagiarism, and General Academic Honesty:
  • Plagiarism and Academic Honesty Page (from Mitch Sanders at Florida State University)
  • Cyber-Property: Copyright, Citation, and the WWW (from Janice Walker at the University of South Florida)
  • Intellectual Property for Dummies (from Janice Walker at the University of South Florida)



Home | Newsgroups | Mailing Lists | Netiquette

Thanks to Paul Hensel for these excellent exerpts from his site at: http://garnet1.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel/writing.html#web
Thanks to Janice R. Walker for the indispensible information, MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources at: http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html
Last Modified: February 2, 1998.
©1998 J. Pennelope Goforth