Review for Finding the Good Stuff

Start from the SFCC Library's home page at http://library.spokanefalls.edu

Proquest Magazines, Newspapers Journals Index
http://library.spokanefalls.edu/_auth/journal.asp

ProQuest indexes thousands of publications by subject and keyword. Use Advanced Search for best results. Choosing the appropriate Database from the drop-down menu will also refine your search. Start with keywords connected by Boolean AND, OR, and AND NOT.

For example: population growth AND environmental impact

Refine search results by using subjects and eliminating reviews or newspapers.

Recommended Subject Directories

You must be able to identify the source and verify the validity of the information provided by the Internet. Directories which review Internet web pages are listed at http://library.spokanefalls.edu/InternetSubjects.stm.

Academic Internet Directories

BUBL Link http://bubl.ac.uk/link/

Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Virtual Library http://vlib.org/

Social Science Gateway http://sosig.ac.uk/

Popular/General Internet Directories

Librarians Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/

For sites specific to Washington State, you can also use http://wa.lii.org

About.com
http://www.about.com

Open Directory DMOZ Open Directory
http://www.dmoz.org/

Not very selective

Finding Information on the Internet - A Tutorial from UC-Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Not always pretty but a great guide to searching the Internet, brought to you by the U. of California at Berkeley Library.

Search Engine Showdown
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/

Updated news on Internet searching.

About.com's Urban Legends
http://urbanlegends.about.com/

Another good site for tracking Internet and other legends is http://snopes.com

MetaCrawler MetaSpy
http://www.metaspy.com/