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• General research resources & skills
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• Online internet tutorials
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• News & information online
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• Search engines & directories
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• Study skills
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• Searching for information

• Evaluating web sites & information
• Funding for postgraduate & MBA study
• Key skills
• Study skills
• Education Index
• Site Index

Please let us know of any other sites that we could include in this section.

• ACA Research Methods - links to research & communication issues, including research methods, business communication, communication education technology, social science & the media
• Action research resources - action research & evaluation online course, also many online resource papers, links to external resources, mailing lists & conference abstracts
• British Educational Research Association - links & events, publications, free to members
• CARN - Collaborative Action Research Network - conference reports, discussion lists, publications & links to other websites
• Centre for Applied Social Surveys - UK - newsletter, research, articles, links for social research, including interviewing
• Columbia Guide to Online Style - Extracts from the main publication, including elements of citation, documenting sources in the text, preparing the bibilographic material
• Doing Library Research - constructing your research paper, from University of California Santa Cruz
• APA Style of Citation - links & advice including writing reports in the style of the American Psychological Association
• Ethical guidelines of the British Educational Research Association - standards for educational researchers
• Ethical Standards of the American Educational Research Association - standards for educational researchers
• Eurydice - information network of databases on education systems, exams & qualifications in Europe, includes glossaries, news & international links
• FAQ on Internet Research - FAQ ( frequently asked questions) regularly updated with links
• Finding Data on the Internet - a Journalist's Guide - subject links are mainly from the US
• Finding information on the Internet - includes search strategies & tools, evaluating web pages, style sheets for evaluating internet & electronic resources, glossary of internet & web jargon, from University of California, Berkeley
• Free Pint - very active & useful community of information researchers on a wide range of topics, with newsletter by email, information on seminars & publications & company search
• Guidelines for carrying out action research - huge list of links to help with action research projects
• IndyMedia UK - a network of individuals, independent & alternative media activists & organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social & political issues, also links to other national & world independent media centres, online debates & articles, international news, offline newsheets, events
• InfoPro Alliance - tools, examples & templates to support information professionals, also good links to international associations, publications & research tools from Factiva.com
• JournalismNet - using the Internet for Journalists, using Canadian & US resources
• LARIA - Local Authorities Research + Intelligence Association - news, online forum, previous newsletters online, publications, links section
• Legal Research Using the Internet - article with mainly US links, useful strategies
• LibrarySpot - huge range of specialist & general libraries, reference sites, articles, lists, library news & monthly newsletter by email
• NFER (National Foundation for Educational Research) - news by email, projects, conferences, articles, web links CERUK (Current Educational research in the UK, database online), also currently hosts the Education Management Information Exchange
• The Nutshell - includes Research Methods Masterclass, LIS (Library & Information Science) funding bodies, news & links to elements of the information industry & e-bulletins, jobs, events & articles
• Radical Statistics Group - promotes use of statistics to inform not to drive policies, online articles & information on publications, search by subjects & by journal date, news, links & discussion group
• Research Strategy - seven steps of the research process, from Cornell University
• Researchpaper - US site for school-related research, includes large writing centre with information on style & presentation, planning, proof-reading, non-sexist language, writing for jobsearch & discussion area
• Researchville - over 700 databases
• Study Aids - helpful list of other sites online including Education World Research Toolbox & sections on Copyright, Citation & Plagiarism, Undergraduate Study Aids & Graduate Study Aids, mainly American
• The Virtual Chase - a research site for legal professionals includes articles, research guides, online teaching tools, resources for internet trainers, free newsfeed

• Finding It Online - Web Search Strategies - a really excellent online tutorial & key information on the biggest search engines
• Internet Detective - excellent interactive tutorial on evaluating information for individuals & organisations, uses cookies & includes refresher quizzes & a bibliography, from Netskills
• Internet information skills for economists - free online tutorial from University of Bristol
• Internet information skills for education - free online tutorial from Institute of Education, University of London
• Internet information skills for government - free online tutorial from London School of Economics
• Internet information skills for politicians - free online tutorial from London School of Economics
• Internet information skills for social policy - free online tutorial from National Institute for Social Work
• Internet information skills for social workers - free online tutorial from National Institute for Social Work
• ITrain - free internet training materials, including module on search engines, available in English, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish
• Pandia - includes Goalgetter Web Search Tutorial, also optimization tips, links to other search engine sites
• Search Engine Tutorials - online tutorials & links to other search engine sites & resources
• Student Guide to WWW Research - helpful tutorial written for 1st year US students on evaluating & using the internet for research including an analysis of different types of web pages.
• The Virtual Chase - a research site for legal professionals with online teaching tools including teaching internet research skills & evaluating the quality of information on the internet, also articles, research guides, resources for internet trainers, free newsfeed
• Virtual Research Assistant - covering various topics on the research process, with advice & links
• Virtual Training Suite - free online tutorials to improve Internet information literacy & IT skills for FE, HE students, staff & professionals, devised across a wide range of disciplines including health & life sciences, humanities, social sciences, business, law, engineering, maths, physical sciences, from University of Bristol. The FE tutorials are are shorter, more graphical & less academic & mapped to part of the UK Key Skills specifications (Levels 1-3).
• You want to do an action research thesis? - very detailed interactive article on how to conduct & report action research, including a beginner's guide