1. Need Help? Ask at the Enquiry Desk | telephone: 0191 227 4125 | email: ask4help@northumbria.ac.uk Evaluating Web sites It can be easy to use Google and use websites you find for research But you can find a huge amount of information and the best sources maybe pages into your results on Google Anyone can create a web site so you need to be careful when selecting information you find on the web

2. Need Help? Ask at the Enquiry Desk | telephone: 0191 227 4125 | email: ask4help@northumbria.ac.uk Evaluating Web sites (cont.) Your tutors will require you to use a variety of sources and primarily you should be using academic sources. For example books, journal articles and other resources that are available via NORA

3. Need Help? Ask at the Enquiry Desk | telephone: 0191 227 4125 | email: ask4help@northumbria.ac.uk Intute  A selection of quality web sites that have been chosen by Academic staff and Librarians on different business and management subject areas  It will save you time searching the web and you can be sure the web sites are good quality and reliable.  Use Intute alongside the resources available via the Library Catalogue and NORA http://www.intute.ac.uk/business/ Or http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences / http://www.intute.ac.uk/business/ http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences /

4. Need Help? Ask at the Enquiry Desk | telephone: 0191 227 4125 | email: ask4help@northumbria.ac.uk Wikipedia  Great if you want to know something quick for personal use!  But its unreliable and your tutors won’t want you to use it in your assessments or seminar work as it’s not an academic source  Anyone can go on and edit the pages and add anything, it may be a while before it is noticed and corrected

5. Need Help? Ask at the Enquiry Desk | telephone: 0191 227 4125 | email: ask4help@northumbria.ac.uk Tips to consider when using web sites Authorship  Who wrote the web site or information on the web page? Are they an expert, well known company? References  Have they used any references you check their work- follow up sources they have used?

6. Need Help? Ask at the Enquiry Desk | telephone: 0191 227 4125 | email: ask4help@northumbria.ac.uk (Cont.) Currency  How up to date is the information, when was the website last updated? Purpose  Is it written with any bias? This can be hard to tell but some company websites for example will only produce positive information about themselves

7. Need Help? Ask at the Enquiry Desk | telephone: 0191 227 4125 | email: ask4help@northumbria.ac.uk Finally… Any material you find used MUST be re- written in YOUR OWN WORDS and you must acknowledge your sources – failure to do this is plagiarism and is considered serious academic misconduct. Remember to ask us if you are unsure about searching for information

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