Family and Consumer Sciences: Internet Sources

Review the online resources below to see if they can benefit your research. Place the cursor over each link for a description of the site.

If you have suggestions for additional links, please contact Robin Lang(opens in a new tab).

Try one of these options:

• Google Advanced Search(opens in a new tab) - provides more options for your search strategy

• Google Advanced Scholar Search(opens in a new tab) - search for scholarly articles

• Google Advanced Book Search(opens in a new tab) - search for books on your topic

• RefSeek(opens in a new tab) - search for academic information on your topic

• Zuula(opens in a new tab) - meta-search engine that searches more than one search engine at a time.  Note the advanced search link.

Consider Quality...

These principles of web source evalution are drawn from The St. Martin's Handbook(opens in a new tab), 8th edition (p. 218-219):

Authorship

• Does the site or document have an author? What are the author's credentials? Why should you trust this author as an expert? 

Sponsorship

• Who sponsors or publishes the source? What evidence demonstrates that the sponsor or publisher is credible? What purpose or perspective does the sponsor seem to promote?

Currency

• How recently was the information posted or modified? Could it be outdated or obsolete?

Credibility

• How do you know that the information itself is trustworthy? Are there links to other sites or sources to support factual claims?