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FREE Web(Google, etc.)

• Results from general search engines

• Results can be from virtually anyone, anywhere (hobbiest? or scholar?)

• Results can be accessed by anyone with the Internet

• Makes the individual solely responsible for determining whether the info is accurate.

Invisible Web(database subscriptions)

• Results not “seen” in the free web.

• Results have been through an editing process (scholars)

• Most can only be accessed via a paid subscription to certain databases

• Helps the searcher insure all info is accurate.

When it’s OK

• Searching for popular culture/current news

• Looking for multimedia regarding a particular subject

• Shopping• Searching for personal

use• Searcher is a personal

expert on topic, can evaluate effectively for accuracy

When it’s NOT

• Searching for purely academic results

• Looking for primary sources and documents

• Searching for photos, etc. that are not in the public domain

• Searcher is a novice to the subject and needs assistance in finding authentic information

Credible• http://www.dhmo.org/

Current• http://www.who.int/docstore/tobacco/ntday/ntday96/

Objective• http://www.martinlutherking.org/• http://www.thekingcenter.org/

Accurate• http://www.malepregnancy.com/

How can the LMC help?

• Present web-evaluation techniques to your classes

• Use our web-site evaluation formhttp://lswhs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/lmclsw/research.htm