Research
 

Study Skills Success activities

The resources below support activities on the Study Skills Success CD-Rom.

The Web: effective searching
Google, Lycos, Altavista, AlltheWeb.com
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The Web: evaluating information
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Notes: the Cornell System
In the Research unit you listened to a lecture on the Cornell System. Here are the notes.
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To find out more about the Cornell System, go to Google and search for Cornell System. Use the skills you have developed in this unit to evaluate the sites you find.

Research links
Recommended sites to help with research:

Libraries - Take an interactive tour of the Dewey Decimal Classification system
www.oclc.org
And for a Library of Congress classification outline (a series of downloadable pdfs)
Online research - for an excellent and comprehensive overview of this topic put together by the University at Albany, New York, visit
library.albany.edu
Subject Directory
Academicinfo.net
Search engines
Google, Yahoo, Lycos, Dogpile, Hotbot, Altavista, AlltheWeb

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