Searching the Internet  a guide for students

Three Ways to Locate Information on the Internet

• Go directly to the website if you have the Web Address / URL.
  For example, the web address for Monroe Community College is http://www.monroecc.edu

• Search Academic and Professional Subject Directories - The web links contained in these directories are selected and updated by subject experts and are considered to be authoritative and reliable and therefore recommended for academic research.

  Some Academic and Professional Subject Directory Sites to visit are:

  The World Wide Web Virtual Library

  Librarians' Index to the Internet

  INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

   
• Perform a search using Web Search Engines such as: Google, Yahoo.

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