Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com - Yahoo "enhances" Google's listings with information from its own directory and may make search results more readable.  

Google - http://www.google.com -This crawler-based service provides both comprehensive coverage of the web along with great relevancy. It's highly recommended as a first stop in your hunt for whatever you are looking for.  

Altavista - http://www.altavista.com -AltaVista is strong in specialty searching. It provides a good image search service, and you can look for video and audio clips, as well. It also has an outstanding news search service.  

Excite - http://www.excite.com - Excite, the first search engine to go beyond keywords and introduce concept based searching to the web.  

Lycos - http://www.lycos.com - This search engine uses crawler-based results provided by FAST. Relevant categories of human-compiled information from the Open Directory appear at the bottom of the search results page. At the top of the page, Lycos will suggest other searches related to your original topic right under the search box.  

Mamma - http://www.mamma.com - Sends search requests to major search services.  

Webcrawler - http://www.webcrawler.com - This crawled-based search engine uses the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but offers a fast and clean, ad-free interface.  

Metacrawler - http://www.metacrawler.com - MetaCrawler is a meta-search engine that searches the Internet's top search engines such as About, Ask Jeeves, FAST, FindWhat, LookSmart, Overture and many more.  

Ask Jeeves - http://www.askjeeves.com - This search engine lets you search by asking questions which are responded to by humans and also crawler-based technology.  

Sites recommended for K-12 students   

Yahooligans - http://www.yahooligans.com - Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be appropriate for children.  

Ask Jeeves for Kids - http://www.ajkids.com - Ask Jeeves is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask Jeeves tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer.  

Kidsclick - http://www.kidsclick.org - Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.  
  

Seven Steps Toward Better Searching - http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/sevensteps2001.html - You can become a better searcher by simply mastering 7 tricks. 

Search the Internet - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Help/search.html -  A Graduated Approach in 3 Steps to search the Internet. 

Searching the World Wide Web - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/search/ - Introduction to the different types of search tools available and some general search tips that can make your search more profitable.  

A basic tutorial on searching the web - http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html - The information contained in the following lessons is truly "bare bones," designed to get you started in the right direction with a minimum of time and effort. 
 

Evaluating Web Resources - http://libweb.sonoma.edu/Resources/eval.html - Sonoma State University in California provides a guide to assessing the value of Web sites. Criteria include accuracy, objectivity, and credibility of the authors.  

A Student's Guide to WWW Research - http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research - Saint Louis University hosts this site, which offers criteria to assess the value of Web sites.  

WWW CyberGuides - http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html - This site provides  Internet evaluation forms. 

Critical evaluation information - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html -  Surveys to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. 

Evaluating Web Pages - http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/evalwebteach.html - This unit is designed for 9th through 12th grade students to meet information and technology literacy standards across content areas. 

Media awareness network - http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm - Resources and support for everyone interested in media and information literacy for young people. 

Why It is a Good Idea to Evaluate Web - http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html - Criteria and examples on how to evaluate internet resources suggested by the New Mexico State University Library. 

The Web-Teaching Zack to Think - http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html - This site shows using an example how important it is to evaluate www resources. 

Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools - http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html - Ste by step guide. 

Critical evaluation of a web site: secondary school level - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalhigh.html - An evaluation form for secondary school students. 

 

Library & Information Sciences - http://www.ifla.org/I/training/citation/citing.htm - This site offers citation guides for electronic documents and links to other resources on how to site. 

Journalism resources - http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html - Annotated collection of links to the best citation guides on the Internet. 

Columbia University Press - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html - Guide to documenting electronic resources, online information, and data gleaned from software. 
 
Getting Permission - http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/permissn.htm - This site provides information on how to obtain the right to use someone elses work.  

Permission Template - http://www.landmark-project.com/permission1.php - Teacher's and student's permission template for harvested Internet resources provided by Landmarks for schools. 

Bellingham Public Schools - http://www.bham.wednet.edu/copyperm.htm - An example of a copyright permission letter.

Stanford University Libraries

The Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/copyright - Key publications, including informational circulars; application forms for copyright registration; links to the copyright law and to the homepages of other copyright-related organizations.

Copyright on the Internet - http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/copynet.htm - This discussion addresses U.S. copyright issues of concern to those who post to or own email lists or host
web pages. 

University of Iowa - http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/webbuilder/copyright.html - Copyright and Multimedia Law for Webbuilders and Multimedia Authors: introductions and explanations and other resources.

Copyright for Educators - http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/copy.htm - Librarians, teachers and other educators will find useful information on the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) copyright page for
educators, K-12.

Copyright Tutorial - http://www.lib.utsystem.edu/copyright - The Copyright Crash Course Online Tutorial will help you learn about how ownership of copyrighted materials works, what is fair use and when and how to get permission to use someone else's materials. 

University of Georgia - http://www.usg.edu/admin/legal/copyright - The guide provides illustrative examples of Fair Use and the legal background of copyright law. 

 
Plagiarism and the Web

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/plagiary.htm - Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism.

Perdue University - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html - This handout is designed to help writers develop strategies for knowing how to avoid accidental plagiarism.

Naperville Community Unit School District 203 - http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html - Links to information on plagiarism, how to detect it, how to stop it, how to educate about it. 

Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning - http://www.albany.edu/cetl/resources/pedagogy/plagiarism.html - Sites to help educate both student and teacher about plagiarism.