SWHS - Social Work and Human Services Research Guide

Consider the following:

• Anyone can build a website, experts and non-experts alike.
• Some information may be outdated or even hazardous to the reader.
• Web searches often retrieve more than 1,000,000 results, many of which are irrelevant to your research.
• Website publishers may be biased and have an agenda, or may be trying to sell you something.
• Since no one supervises the Internet, there's a lack of basic quality and usability standards.
• Website information is not reviewed the same way as published works (books, scholarly articles, encyclopedias).
• The Internet often functions as a place for people to share their unfiltered opinions. 
• Scholarly sources are rarely available for free. The library subscribes to research databases that provide access to high-quality research at no cost to you.