Useful for nitty-gritty historical detail, coverage of subjects from medieval age to present. 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. To find scholarly resources on the web, look for sites that have academic or government affiliation, that cite the original source of information, and that list credentials of the author. 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.
These web directories point to such scholarly web sites as Russian History on the Web , a product of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. In general, for scholarly resources on the web, look for sites that have academic or government affiliation, that cite the original source of information, and that list credentials of the author. Writing and style guides For online step by step directions on writing a paper, consult the University of Richmond's Writer's Web . Trexler Library's MLA Style Examples offers models for citing print and electronic sources in a bibliography.