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Searching Tips
How to Find Something on the Internet

Information to help you find it on the Internet. And there's a lot to find!

See also in Volterre-Fr
Searching Engines, Subject Guides, Email Addresses, Email Forums Viruses, Hoaxes, Worms and More
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/search.html

  • About.com
    http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/library/weekly/topicsub_searching.htm

  • Bare Bones 101: A Very Basic Web Search Tutorial
    http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml
    20 clear lessons on how to search. Read every word. This site was created by Ellen Chamberlain, Head Librarian at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort, USA.

  • Finding Information
    http://www-ed.fnal.gov/linc/spring96/find/find_tutorial.html
    Tutorial, quick reference and review

  • Finding Information on the Internet http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
    A tutorial from the University of California, Berkeley

  • Internet Tutorials
    http://library.albany.edu/internet/
    University of Albany Libraries. Maintained by Laura Cohen, a network librarian at the University of Albany. This is a collection of beginners' tutorials for Internet users. The major categories are: Basic Internet, Research Guides, Search Engines, Netscape, and Software Training with nineteen tutorials.

  • OU CALL Lab's Help page
    http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/help/index.html
    With topics of interest to budding searchers:
    How to use the Internet...tutorials, finding information on the Internet, evaluating information on the Internet, citing information from the internet, avoiding plagiarism, etc.

  • Research
    http://nuevaschool.org/~debbie/library/research/research.html
    Straight forward presentation on efficient Web searching. Also MLA Bibliographic Formats for citing web pages, an email, etc. By Debbie Abilock.

  • SearchEngines.com
    http://www.searchengines.com/
    This site has search engines, directories, reference sites and tips.

  • Search Engine Showdown
    http://www.notess.com/search/
    Created and maintained by Greg Notess, with reviews, analysis, statistics and strategies for many of the major search engines.

  • Search Engine Watch
    http://searchenginewatch.com/
    An excellent resource by Danny Sullivan! The best on the Web I've seen, Linda.

    Other Resources

  • Catalogues de bibliothèques francophones
    http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque/index.html

  • Internet Bibliographie Sommaire en français
    http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/biblio/referenc/intbibfr.htm

  • Also in Volterre Search Engines and Subject Guides
    http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/search.html

    Do you have other suggestions for how to search and find it on the Internet? If so, let me, Linda, know at thalman@wfi.fr

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