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Creative Arts Subject Guide

Websites, webpages

Why use websites?

The internet is useful for finding information like:

  • professional bodies and standards
  • government policy
  • news
  • museums, archives and library collections

It's important that you evaluate each source before using them in your assignment, particularly if you are using information you found on the internet.

For internet sources, look at the three letters at the end of the site address: “.edu.au” (education), “.gov.au” (government), “.org.au” (nonprofit), or “.com.au” (commercial). Generally, ".edu.au" and ".gov.au" websites provide credible information. Commercial websites, such as news organisations, can also be good information sources however it is always necessary to evaluate.

See the UniSQ Library Evaluating Research Resources tutorial for step by step evaluation methods.

Websites

National collections

These sites are excellent sources of primary sources, images, historical documents and themed collections. Most can be searched using keywords and results can be refined using filters.