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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.htmlDo 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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