Cite Your Source
The great thing about online publishing is that anyone anywhere regardless of age, education or experience can publish anything they want. The bad thing about online publishing is that anyone anywhere regardless of age, education or experience can publish anything they want.
The result being there is a lot of junk out there. And you have to wade through a lot of that junk to find the keepers.
So, how do you know if you are getting the good stuff? Well, you can make sure you only use information found via services like:
- Librarians Index to the Internet,
- World Wide Web Virtual Library,
- The Invisible Internet
- Infomine,
- Internet Public Library Reference Center,
- History Matters,
- Google Scholar
That is not to say this is an exhaustive list. If you are of an adventurous sort you can follow up on link lists from someone you trust. The only caution is to beware of the telephone game. Remember the childhood game in which one person whispered a message to the next person in the change and when the last person shares the message it is completely different from the initial message. That phenomena occurs with sharing of links. When you explore the links you may find that many have very little to do with the topic at all.