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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.
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. A tutorial document on evaluating resources of all kinds is maintainted by Cornell University. Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries at Babson College, has published an extensive online essay on this subject: "Evaluating Quality on the Web," which contains several useful examples of evaluative choices.
Click HERE for the Capital Library's list of online book collections and the online magazine rack. We also draw your attention to the college's list of online newspapers, magazines of social and political commentary, and other news resources on the News, Sports & Weather pages.
We hope you find these resources useful and that you will enjoy exploring and using them as much as we enjoyed discovering them.
EDUCATION (Early Childhood Ed)