Much valuable information can be
found on the World Wide Web, but it may be difficult to separate
scholarly research from personal opinions in this vast ocean of
(primarily) unedited/not evaluated material. For important
guidelines on evaluating web sites, click on http://library.uvm.edu/~pmardeus/webeval.html
Information
for Practice is a new, free, resource for social service
professionals that is updated daily. The focus is on: professionally
relevant stories in the world's news outlets; new articles in scholarly
journals; and new resources appearing in the grey literature (e.g.,
scientific and technical reports primarily from governments and
organizations). The goal of this service is to provide social service
professionals with easier access to high quality information that can
be used to improve their practice.
The
Social Work Cafe is a friendly guide to Internet resources,
compiled
by social workers.
The George Warren Brown
School of Social Work maintains
a topical index called Social
Work and Social Services Websites
Select Google for a keyword approach to searching millions of web
sites. To make your search more specific, choose the "Advanced" search
mode, where you can refine your search by a series of limits, such as
searching for words only in the title of the web page, specifying
certain domains, etc.
Select Yahoo for a subject approach to selected Internet sites, and go
directly to Education at http://dir.yahoo.com/Education
to explore the links to web sites and home pages.
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