Finding Information on the Internet: Table of Contents

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial

Tutorial Table of Contents
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops

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This tutorial presents the substance of the web searching workshops formerly offered by the UC Berkeley Library, but now suspended due to budget reductions. We use the term "Research-quality Web Searching" to reflect our belief that there is a lot of great material on the Web - primary sources, specialized directories and databases, statistical information, educational sites on many levels, policy, opinion of all kinds, and so much more - and tools for finding it are steadily improving.

Search Tools:

Search Engines - Comparison table of recommended search engines; how search engines work
Subject Directories - Table comparing some of the best human-selected collections of web pages
Meta-Search Engines - Use at your own risk: not recommended as a substitute for directly using search engines
Invisible Web - What it is, how to find it, and its inherent ambiguity (searchable databases on the Web)

Evaluating Web Pages: Why and How and evaluation checklist forms (PDFs)

Style Sheets for Citing Resources (Print & Electronic) (MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian)

Glossary of Internet & Web Jargon

Handouts and PowerPoints used in our workshops

Quick Links

Search Engines |Subject Directories | Meta-Search Engines | Invisible Web