Capital Community College provides these pages of links to resources on the World Wide Web in the hope that they will prove useful for faculty and student research. If you are using a frames-capable browser, you can select from disciplines listed on the scrollable frame to the left.

These resources are constantly updated. They are selected from several guides to the internet. By far the most important of these is the academically oriented weekly SCOUT REPORT* (from the InterNIC and the University of Wisconsin). Scout Report also publishes three subject-specific compilations on a weekly basis. Suggestions also come in from users all over the world. Please keep in mind that these are academic weblists, to be used primarily by community college students.

Everyone who tries to do research on the internet soon discovers that the World Wide Web is like an ocean of information; it is surely vast, but you are never sure how deep it is until you drop anchor. You may be in shallow, dangerous shoals; you may find real depth and real treasure. Learning to evaluate information resources critically becomes a crucial skill in using the internet. Make sure you are using a good directory, like the Scout Report, that lists sites maintained by trustworthy, academically oriented providers of information. The library at the University of California, Los Angeles, has put together a document on the evaluation of resources. It might be wise to review that document before you rely heavily on internet research for any college papers that you write. If you click HERE, that document will open up in this frame.

There is also a site put together by librarians called Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources from Widener University. Another tutorial document on evaluating resources of all kinds is maintainted by Cornell University.

We hope you find these resources useful and that you will enjoy exploring and using them as much as we enjoyed discovering them.

Capital's Academic Weblists are maintained by:
Charles Darling, Professor of English
Capital Community College
Hartford CT
Most recent update: August 2001
cdarling@ccc.commnet.edu

*Copyright Susan Calcari and the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, 1994-1999. The Internet Scout Project [http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/], located in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides information about the Internet to the U.S. research and education community under a grant from the National Science Foundation, number NCR-9712163. The Government has certain rights in this material. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of any of our publications or web content provided this paragraph, including the copyright notice, is preserved on all copies.

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