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Databases
Databases are fantastic resources to use when you are doing research. They provide resources that have been edited and aren't usually freely accessible on the web. Databases provide magazine articles, newspaper articles, opinion essays, video clips and evaluated web pages. They will also provide you with citations that are already formatted for you to use.

Databases that are good for **ANY** topic include: Student Resources in Context

e-Library

Proquest Research Library Prep

Databases that are good for **controversial** topics(where people might have strong opinions):

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

SIRS Issues Researcher

Search Engines
No search engine, not even Google, can search the entire web. When researching, you should use more than one search engine to get the widest results.

Google

Bing

Mashpedia Information is presented as a topic page(Wikipedia entry, Newspaper articles, Newscasts, Twitter feed, Facebook feed, related topics.

SweetSearch A search engine for students. All web results have been evaluated by "research experts".

Evaluating Web Resources
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Not everything on the web trustworthy. You need to do some investigating to make sure that the resource is a good one. A tool you might use to evaluate websites is the C.R.A.P Detector.


 * Hoax Websites**


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