Marc Meola

Humanities Librarian

meolam@tcnj.edu

609-771-3217


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Staff Directory

HIST 311-- Romans and Barbarians in the Early Middle Ages (Fall 2004)

Find Information on the Early Middle Ages

Finding Books 

Finding Scholarly Journal Articles

 

Finding Primary Sources, Web Sites

Evaluating results through comparison and corroboration

Compare results from several sources and several types of sources to identify facts, trends and analyses

  • Compare coverage between different sites, note similarities and differences, depth of content, bias
  • Compare to a reference point
  • Consider a Google search in Images, Groups, News
  • Note trends - is one Web site consistently linked to? Why?
  • Does any information need special attention and corroboration?
  • Don't stop with the free Web. Compare different document types: scholarly journal articles, books, popular magazine articles, primary sources