For an index to all the links available at this website, choose Links from the Book Resources menu.
Copyright & Fair Use (Stanford University Libraries) The Stanford site provides a fairly comprehensive list of significant discussions of fair use.
Copyright: Understanding Fair Use Rights (Todays-Woman.net). This site provides a brief, but helpful, discussion of the concept of "fair use."
The Fair Use Doctrine's Influence on Web Composing (Social Science Research Network) This article by Martine Courant Rife and William Hart Davidson explores the effects of interpretation and use of the "Fair Use Doctrine."
Q&A: Copyright and Fair Use (The Learning Page) Through a series of questions and answers, this site provides information for a basic understanding of copyright and fair use.
Nine-Tenths of the Law: The English Copyright Debates and the Rhetoric of the Public Domain (Mark Rose) Rose's article is a historical discussion of public domain.
What Are Works in the "Public Domain?" This University of Maine site provides a brief description of "public domain" and links to sites with additional information.
Respect the Public Domain This site raises the so what question. Be sure to follow the so what? link for the rest of the discussion.
Writer's Reference Guide for Using Five Reader-Centered Research Methods
Page 174. Search Engines and Internet Directories
Search Engine Watch. This site provides up-to-the-minute information on search engines, metacrawlers, etc. It is as its masthead claims, "the source for search engine marketing." Especially relevant is the Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines and The Major Search Engines pages.
Search Engine Page (U Can Do I.T.). This London site provides links to information about search engines and to a long list of search engines.
Dr. Alice Christie's Search Engines Page. This page provides categorized lists of search engines with links to the same.
Search Tools News 2006 (SearchTools.com). This site provides the latest news in/about search engines.
Internet Directories (Internet-directories.com). This site claims to have found the best directories selected because they are well-organized, search engine friendly, and have the most traffic. Links from this site will provide pages with links to free, paid, and other directories.
Internet Directories (Georgetown University Library). This site separates directories into two categories: academic and professional directories and commercial directories and portals.
Page 174. Comparison of Various Search Engines
Search Engines (Phil Bradley). Phil Bradley posts several pages that will be helpful in comparing and selecting appropriate and usable search engines.
The BEST Search Engines (UC Berkeley Library). This site provides a comparison of recommended search engines as well as links to those engines and others.
Search Engine Guide (Small Business). Targeted toward small businesses, this site provides critical discussions and news of search engines.
Meta-Search Engines (UC Berkeley Library). This page provides the outline of a workshop entitled "What Are 'Meta-Search' English? How Do They Work?"
Page 179. Conducting Internet Research
Internet Tutorials: Conducting Research on the Internet. This site prepared by Laura Cohen provides a fairly comprehensive introduction to Internet research.
Brush Up on Your Research Skills (Ballard, Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP). This site helps you rate the quality of Internet information; its discussions are brief, to the point, and current. Additional pages connected to this site include topics such as "Tips for Conducting Internet Research," "Research Starting Tips," and "Evaluating Skills."
Unit 6: Conducting Research (Mohawk College). Intended as a course unit, this site also serves as a discussion of several research methodologies and ways that the Internet affects their use.
Evaluating Web Pages (Duke Libraries). This site provides a comprehensive though brief discussion of five criteria to consider when searching the Internet. Each criterion is developed with a list of questions the researcher should ask in selecting web sites for use in research.
A Meta-Analysis of Guidelines for Web-based Research (Laura J. Gurak & Laura Bobendrier). This article though dated provides a nice introduction to the boom in the use of Internet for research purposes and will provide an historical anchor for understanding many of the issues we're addressing now.
Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources. Created by Ester Grassian in 1995, this guide was upgraded during the summer of 2006 and is free for all but commercial use.
Page 187. Conducting Library Research
Library Resources and Methods of Research (Ithaca College). This page links to other pages covering a variety of research topics (e.g., library resources, citing sources, and thinking).
Selecting Resources: Information Timeline (Duke University). This page provides an overview of types of resources available and their comparative usefulness in different kinds of research. This page links to another page entitled The Big Picture which provides a more in-depth discussion of the same topic.
Library Tutorials (Indiana State University). This site offers links to a variety of useful tutorials about various aspects of research.
Citation Guides (U of Michigan Libraries). This page provides links to key information about citing sources and was updated this past summer.
Paper Planners. Many sites offer specific planning guides for conducting research for college research papers. Listed below are a few of these. Although varied in detail and approach and not targeted specifically toward technical communication, a guide such as one of these will help you make sure you've covered all necessary sources.
Links to Additional Resources Related to this Chapter
For more information on intellectual property and copyright, see Chapter 18 links.