Search+Engines

=Special Reference Topics=

//These special reference tools are to help when doing research by teaching some basics of being effective on the web. Not all sites are good, remember the terms "relable" and "valid". Anyone can put something on the web and the users need to sort it out. Time is also a resource, using time effectively makes the search faster as well as easier. Below are links to several sites to improve your online reasearch skills.// **

Searching the Web Effectively **
 * [|How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory] 
 * [|Boolean Searching on the Internet]

**Search Engines**
 *  [|Answers.com] 
 *    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[|Ask.com/]  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[|Quinura] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[|Nettrekker: Education Search Engine]  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">       <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">General Searching Tools  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">: This wiki is a good place to locate even more search engines and directories.

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Evaluating Web Sites**

 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[|Five criteria for evaluating Web pages]

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Citing Electronic Resources** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Information Literacy: ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">//Information Literacy is a transformational process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create for personal, social or global purposes.//
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[|MLA Formatting and Style Guide]
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[|Understanding Information Literacy] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[|Information Literacy] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> : <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Building Blocks of Research: Overview of Design, Process and Outcome s