| BASIC RATIONALE A full exposition of my views on how to use the Web in research and
learning will appear soon in my essay Using The Web for Serious Research in
International and Comparative Studies, which I anticipate posting in October 1998.
In the meantime, a few words on what I have tried to
accomplish here:
 | I view the web essentially as an electronic library
and generally encourage students to use it that way; |
| Many of us use search engines first, which I think is the
wrong way to proceed; |
| Thus, it is important to catalog and make available Web
resources in a way that facilitates their retrieval; |
| There are many, many good sites in IR, most of them linked
somewhere here, but my experience has been that many of them contain almost too much.
They tend to overwhelm. |
| Thus, I have reorganized Web resources under categories
that students should find familiar, and have tried (not always successfully), to keep the
number of links per page to a minimum. |
| The "Quick Starts" contain the "best"
comprehensive sites in these categories. Other links pages contain more specific
titles and contents. |
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