CRMJ 2244 - Criminology: Find Websites

Wikipedia is not a reliable source for academic writing or research, but it can be a helpful place to start -- read why.

SweetSearch is a search engine for students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that a staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved. It enables students to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, makes it much easier for them to find primary sources, and excludes not only obvious spam sites, but also marginal sites that read well, but lack academic or journalistic rigor. The very best websites that are often buried on other search engines appear on the first page of SweetSearch results.

The CRAAP Test is a list of questions to help you evaluate the information you find.

Special considerations specific to evaluating web resources.