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More Help: Internet Guides and Tutorials
For anyone who wants additional help in learning how to use the Internet more
effectively, many excellent resources are available for free via the Internet. Also,
there are more and more sites appearing to help new Internet users get started with
searching the web. Some help you choose the right search engine, others how to
formulate a query, and others are step-by-step tutorials.
The Internet Detective Tutorial is a free online tutorial that is part of the Intute: Virtual
Training Suite, a set of "free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best
from the Web for your education and research...[created by] a national team of
subject specialists based in universities and colleges across the UK.,,60 Not familiar
with Intute? It is the newly evolved face of the Resource Discovery Network, a
carefully selected and evaluated set of academic research resources. The Internet
Detective tutorial focuses on how to evaluate Internet sources for quality and
authoritativeness, how to avoid wasting time on questionable websites and
searches, and how to avoid violating copyright laws and plagiarism. The tutorial
includes a set of practical exercises to try your Internet research skills. Although the
tutorial is aimed at university research, I highly recommend it for all readers. The
tutorial requires about an hour to complete, but it is designed so you can do it in
more than one sitting.
The Internet Detective Tutorial
All the Intute tutorials are available at:
Intute: Virtual Training Suite
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
The. following are tutorials, guides, and search-oriented sites available on the
Internet:
BrightPlanet's Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet
http://www.brightplanet.com/deepcontentltutorials/search/index.asp
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/lnternet/Findlnfo.html
Internet Tutorials from University of Albany Libraries
http://www.internettutorials.neU
Internet Scout Report
http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/toolkit/searching/index.html
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