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Many
print reference sources are also published online. Some are now
being published solely in an online format. For the many students
who enroll in distance education, being able to identify high
quality sources of information online is important. Here are a
few links to some of our favorite reference resource sites on
the Web:
Librarians'
Index to the Internet http://lii.org/search/file/reference
Cabrillo
College Library Selected Internet Sources http://libwww.cabrillo.edu/depts/reference.html
University
of California, Santa Barbara Online Reference Sources http://www.library.ucsb.edu/ref/online-ref.html
Exercise
1. Look over all three
of the sites.
2. Select the site
that interests you the most (e.g., it has sources on your topic
and you like the layout).
3. Now select a reference
source appropriate for your topic and look for some useful information.
4. Let us know what
source you chose. Write the title of the source you selected as
well as some useful information you discovered and share it with
everyone by posting it on the bulletin board [click on Bulletin
Board towards the top of this page] for
this class.
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We
used Google's Advanced
Search <http:www.google.com> and typed in
the words "online reference sources"and
we limited the search to .edu (educational
domains) to find a long list of reference resources on the
Web. In Chapter 8 we will discuss using search engines to
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