Asia via the Web:
Useful Reference Tools
Guides to evaluating internet sources
Guides to citing internet sources
Reference books (almanacs, encyclopedias, and collections of primary sources)
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Evaluating Internet Sources
The three sites below provide good
questions to consider while examining websites.
Evaluating Web Sites (Widener University)
http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htm
Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (UCLA)
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/web/critical.htm
Why We Need to Evaluate What We Find on the Internet (Purdue)
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/eval.html
Citing Internet Sources
Before going too far into the web, take a look at these
guides on how you can cite the information you locate.
Li & Crane, "Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information", which can be read at:
Janice Walker, "MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources" which can be read at:
Anita Greenhill, "Electronic References & Scholarly Citations of Internet Sources" is an outstanding guide to a wide variety of citation guides. It can be found at:
Reference Books/Sites
Infonation (United Nations managed database of information on all member nations)
CIA '98 World Factbook (useful information on countries)
Other CIA publications (economic handbooks, maps, and more)
United States Library of Congress Country Studies
Merriam-Webster Online (dictionary/theasaurus)
Dictionary.com (includes Elements of Style and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)
Internet Sourcebooks (links to primary source documents)
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Global (links for Africa, East Asia, India, Islamic, Jewish, Science, Women's)
Historical Text Archive (Mississippi State University: Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, Europe, the Pacific)
These are gateway services that constantly search out new Web sites and index them. Be sure to read supplementary instructions on improving the results of your searches via use of limiting and excluding words or symbols (e.g. “and”, “+”). Note that some (e.g. Yahoo) rely on bibliographers to organize links in a hierarchical format while others (e.g. Alta Vista) use web-roaming "spiders" to follow links and index pages.
Yahoo (Yahoo also has Chinese, Japanese, and Korean search engines)
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