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Finding Information on the Web

In order to use the Internet effectively, you must evaluate the quality of the resources you find. Our brief guide to evaluating online resources may be helpful. Some effective ways to access relevant web sites for Psychology are suggested below.

Subject Gateways
Gateways provide links to relevant sites which have already been evaluated for their academic quality.

  • BUBL: Psychology link Selected and evaluated psychology sites

  • Intute Education and research web resources for social sciences

  • LTSN Psychology The Learning and Teaching support network for psychology site.

  • Intute: Health and Life Sciences Education and research web resources for health and life sciences

  • Psychcrawler The American Psychology’s site for locating resources in Psychology.

  • Psychology Departments Departments in the UK and Ireland

  • Psychweb A site for students and teachers of psychology particularly useful section of links for all aspects of the subject in “scholarly resources”

    Search Engines
    If you still haven't found what you are looking for, search the Internet using a search engine.

    Search engines useful for Psychology are:

  • Scirus is a search engine that will search the web for scientific and medical information only.

  • Google Scholar - searches for scholarly literature.