Websites for Beginners

Learning the Ins and Outs of Web Searching  

Every web site has an Internet address called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator).  All Internet addresses begin with http://, and it will tell you where the topic is found.

To access each one, open an Internet Browser (Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, for example, on the Trocaire College computers); highlight the address which pops up – in the library, it will be the Library’s Website, then type in one of the addresses below. It isn’t necessary to hit the ‘delete’ key, as the highlighted area will disappear as soon as you begin typing something new. 

Here are some sites which will help you learn all about web sites and how to search them:

The ABCs of Evaluating WWW Sources
http://library.gulfcast.edu/research/librarytutor/pdf/evalweb.pdf

Cornell University: How to Find and Develop a Viable Research Topic
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/topic.html

Pasadena Public Library – World Wide Web Tutorial
http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.u/library/tutorial.asp

Purdue University Library’s CORE: Comprehensive Online Research Education  
http://core.lib.purdue.edu choose Internet (lower right corner)

University of Washington  Information Based Research: A Tutorial
http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101