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June 21, 2006, 11:31 AM ET

Sleuthing Out Legitimate Web Sites

How do you tell a reputable Web site from a shady one? What kind of Web material is useful for academic research? Those questions and others that college students have about Internet research are answered on a Web site called Internet Detective that went online last week. The Web site—designed by academic technologists at the University of Bristol and Manchester Metropolitan University, in England—serves as a free online tutorial that purports to teach students “the good, the bad and the ugly for your online research.”

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