Websites can be reliable information sources, but you must evaluate their credibility before citing them for an assignment. For every website, consider:
To save time, use the recommended websites on this guide to research your country. Each website has been approved by your teacher and librarian.
Improve your Google searches by incorporating the following operators to refine your searches.
| OPERATOR | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLE |
|---|---|---|
| site: | Use your keyword(s) to search for results from dedicated sites. Country domains can also be used as keywords to find country-specific websites (see below for more details about country domains). |
(This search uses the country domain "uk" as a keyword and combines it with a topic keyword to narrow the search. It will generate a list of websites about the American Revolution that were created in the UK.) |
| related: | To search for sites that are similar to a designated site or domain. | related:https://blogs.chapman.edu/holocaust-education/ |
| link: | To search for pages that link to a certain page. |
link:darwin-online.org.uk |
| filetype: |
To search for a specific type of file.
|
Lech Walesa filetype:pdf |
These top level domains help you identify web information that is more likely to be authoritative
| DOMAIN | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| .gov | United States government websites |
| .edu | United States affiliated institutions of higher education. |
| .org | Commonly used by schools, open-source projects, and communities, as well as by for-profit entities.. |
| .mil | United States military |
| country domains |
Domains can be country-specific: see the list here: country's domain. Create a site search (as shown above) to search for your keyword(s) as it appears in country-specific websites. To search for the keyword "american revolution" within websites created in the United Kingdom, enter "site: uk american revolution"--this search will generate websites specifically from the UK that deal with the American Revolution. |