The World Wide Web is still in its infancy, but it has a great deal of potential for researchers. At the moment, it is uncontrolled and can be a tricky maze through which to navigate.
Web sites range from vanity publications to grey publications to very scholarly endeavors.
Commercial web sites, published by corporations, may have complete financial statements or may be advertisements. As a result, the web requires discipline to search and to navigate, and it requires well-developed critical skills to evaluate the material retrieved. In addition, rapid change in search engines and web sites require flexibility on the part of the researcher. This tutorial will explain search techniques for locating relevant web sites and for evaluating teh search results. Oh yes you do.