Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies in Criminology and Social Work
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Links to the World Wide Web
There are two main ways of getting started - search engines and gateways
Search Engines
Search engines are provided by a number of companies and they can search web sites or pages throughout the world according to the terms that you give them. For example, if you were interested in finding information on elder abuse, you would put these words into the search box and probably receive tens or hundreds of web addresses which have some relationship to those terms. The advantage of this is the sheer volume of links that you can get, but on the other hand many of these may not be as relevant to your studies as you might wish and many will be of dubious academic value. Some popular search engines are:
- Google Highly Recommended
- Yahoo
- Search Made Safe
- Alta Vista
- Lycos, Inc.
- kartOO
There are several more search engines and a useful guide on the university's main site at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/search.htm
Gateways
Gateways are provided in order to try and direct you to sites that are considered of value in a particular area of business or study. There are several gateways for the social sciences and social work which often prove to be more useful and less time-consuming than do search engines. Some gateways that are useful are:
- Intute: Social Sciences provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities
- Social Care Online is the UK's most complete range of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work hosted by the SCIE.
Key Sites
In addition to these, there are a number of key sites which give you entry to a wealth of resources. These include:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation Web Site You can look at all the Findings from research funded by the JRF.
- The Disability Archive This site at Leeds University has dozens of classic texts from disability studies.
- Disability - a web pathfinder for student research An American site to get started with disability issues.
- open.gov.uk The entry point for all central and local government organisations.
- Internet Mental Health Canadian site with wide range of information about mental illnesses.
- Dr. Gary Holden W3 4 SW The largest set of social work related links in the world.
- Child Welfare Home Page Good starting point for child care information and sites.
- Stonewall is the national civil rights group working for legal equality and social justice for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals.
- ILGA - The International Lesbian and Gay Association.
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