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The World Wide Web
offers information and data from all over the world.
Because so much information is available, and
because that information can appear to be fairly
“anonymous”, it is necessary to develop skills to
evaluate what you find. When you use a research or
academic library, the books, journals and other
resources have already been evaluated by scholars,
publishers and librarians. Every resource you find
has been evaluated in one way or another before you
ever see it. When you are using the World Wide Web,
none of this applies. There are no filters. Because
anyone can write a Web page, documents of the widest
range of quality, written by authors of the widest
range of authority, are available on an even playing
field. Excellent resources reside along side the
most dubious. The Internet epitomizes the concept of
Caveat lector: Let the reader beware. --
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