Entomology 210

• Check validity of sources!!! not all web sites are equal.
• Not everything on the web is free.
• Not all information is on the web.
• No one search engine or web directory will find everything on the web
• Links for Evaluating Web Sites Information

NDSU Library resources: accessing via the web

• NDSU Library Catalog Web Site For Books in the NDSU Library, and general periodical indexes.
• For other library catalogs: UND, WorldCat, UofM
• Entomology journal indexes.

Important Entomology Web sites

• Links to World Wide Web entomology directories and important sites.

Web search engines

• Each search engine is different in scope, speed, power, indexing criteria and search system. If one search engine doesn't work, try another.
• Helpful evaluations, comparisons and guides to the various search engines are available on the web; nice examples are the InFoPeople Search Tool Chart, and Evaluation of Selected Internet Search Tools. Others are linked from the NDSU Library's home page.
• For an extensive tutorial on search the web, try the Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet. "Time spent reading through this tutorial will be returned ten-fold from the time you save doing better searches" (Librarians Index to the Internet, Jan 11,1999. Internet Discussion List: liiweek@sunsite.berkeley.edu (accessed 1/14/99))
• Help screens and guides are available from each search engine to give detailed assistance.
• Search hints:

Most rank "hits" by relevancy
For most, enclose phrases with quotes: "acid rain"
Most allow higher relevancy for words or phrases preceded by +.

Citing Internet resources

• Fit the Internet citation as best as possible into the style specified by class instructor: a homepage can be roughly considered as a book title, or the title of an article, or a chapter of a book whichever seems most appropriate. Try to identify the author, although sometimes there is none.
• Include if possible the date the internet document was created. This information is often at the end of the page; sometimes there is no date given.
• Add type of source (eg World Wide Web, Usenet News, Discussion group) AND the the internet address
• Add in parentheses the date you found the source.
• EXAMPLE:
  

Burka, Lauren. "Hypertext History" MUD History. June 1992. URL: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lpb/mud-history.html (accessed 5 Dec. 1994)


More information for citing internet sources may be found at the NDSU Center For Writers home page