When you need to find web based information sources relevant to your topic:
- Select your search engine carefully.
HINT: Most libraries link the better search engines to their web sites.
- Choose your search terms carefully
- Your key topic term or broader subject area term plus a form subdivision term works reasonably well for finding information sources with a search engine
- Enter these key terms in the search bar
- Scan the first screen or two for relevant and useful results
- If no results are relevant or useful, try a different topic term plus a form subdivision.
- If some results are relevant, select the most relevant and evaluate the entire site for its reliability before you use any information from it.
- Print or save the homepage of any web information source you select. You will need this information later.
- Record the URL of the web site
- Record the date you accessed the web site
- Record your assessment of its reliability
