1. COMM 170 USING THE WEB

2. WHEN I NEED TO FIND RESOURCES FOR AN ASSIGNMENT THE FIRST THING I DO IS... 1.Go to the Web & Google it 2.Ask my friends on Facebook 3.Use Google Scholar 4.Search the library databases

3. DO YOU THINK WEB SITE A – HTTP://WWW.MARTINLUTHERKING.ORG/ IS RELIABLE? HTTP://WWW.MARTINLUTHERKING.ORG/ 1.Yes 2.No 3.Can’t determine yet

4. HOW ABOUT WEB SITE B –RELIABLE? HTTP://MLK- KPP01.STANFORD.EDU/INDEX.PHP/KINGPAPE RS/INDEX HTTP://MLK- KPP01.STANFORD.EDU/INDEX.PHP/KINGPAPE RS/INDEX 1.Yes 2.No 3.Can’t determine yet

5. DISCUSSION Who sponsors these Web sites? What kinds of things do you do to determine reliability/credibility of Web sites?

6. Now take a look at this article from the Institute for Historical Review Web site. http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/auschwitz.shtml Focus on the bibliography

7. THIS ARTICLE IS WELL DOCUMENTED AND PROVIDES MANY GOOD SOURCES FOR FURTHER READING 1.Strongly Agree 2.Agree 3.Neutral 4.Disagree 5.Strongly Disagree

8. DISCUSSION INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW Founded in 1978 continues the tradition of historical revisionism Publication: Journal for Historical Review -88 libraries have print version, 26 link to online version INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH Founded in1921 one of ten member Institutes at the University of London Publication Historical Research – 505 libraries have print version, 517 have online version

9. SEARCHING GOOGLE VS GOOGLE SCHOLAR What do you notice about the search results generated by the simple keyword search: flirting in Google compared to Google scholar? Google - flirting Google scholar -flirting

10. DISCUSSION GOOGLE Includes results from all domains - commercial sites, personal sites, news, educational, government GOOGLE SCHOLAR Indexes only “academic” information

11. OTHER PLACES TO LOOK FOR INFORMATION Library Catalog Academic Search Premier LexisNexis Use the “Articles and Research Databases “page to find more resources by subject area.