It indexes a mixture of scholarly and popular articles in all areas of the social science, including political science and economics. Also useful for select areas in psychology. Researching on the internet means making judgments about the quality of information. Some sites are simply misinforming, like the humorous Mankato Home Page , which attributes tropical qualities to a town just south of the Canadian border. One way to screen web sites is to use a web directory as your search engine.
Web directories vary in restrictiveness, but all have some sort of rating system for site inclusion.
Another highly regarded web directory is the Librarian's Index to the Internet , and also Looksmart . A subscriber database, open to Muhlenberg.