Project Management
Good Internet starting points
Why you should NOT start with yahoo or google
Information published on the Internet is not necessarily subject to any quality control. General search engines will retrieve information of varying types and from diverse sources: academic, commercial, political or personal. It makes it more difficult for you to judge its quality and suitability for your assignment. There are gateways or portals that screen and evaluate what they publish, so the information you find there is more reliable and more appropriate for you.
See Using and citing for more information about how to evaluate the information you find.
Good starting points: gateways and subject-specific search engines
Project Management Internet Guide
Information Technologies Internet Guide
Economics and Business Subject Guides
The following may be used for finding quality resources in areas of Science and Engineering.
Browse by category or search by keyword.
Scirus, the search engine for science, focuses only on Internet pages containing scientific content.
Google Scholar for scholarly information
EEVL -Internet Guide for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, links to quality UK and worldwide Internet resources, selected, evaluated, and classified by subject specialists.
TechXtra searches a combination of digital
repositories, journal databases, technical reports servers, web
information, news sources and more, all with a focus on technology
information.
Don't neglect other sources of information
Your main sources for information on assignment and research topics are therefore:- the library catalogue
- electronic databases
- Internet gateways and subject-specific search engines
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