Internet sites for Primate Conservation

The internet sites listed here may be of interest to primate conservation students and staff.

Primatology sites
Tips on evaluating the Internet
Gateways
Organisations and associations
Catalogues of other libraries
Search engines

Primatology sites

  • African Primates at home : images and information on african primates
  • D. Formenti's links : Primatology : access to a wide range of information on primatology and primate conservation
  • Primate Info Net : access to a range of resources on primatology from Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center
  • PrimateLit : a bibliographic database for primatology, 1940-present. Provides bibliographic details from books and journals

Tips on evaluating the Internet

There is a huge amount of information available on the Internet, from academic research to misinformation and trivia. If you do decide to use internet sites for your research, be selective and critical. You need to evaluate internet sources just as you would printed sources. Look at the Library guides Evaluating Web sources and Citing information sources and plagiarism for tips on how to select, evaluate and cite web sites.

Internet tutorials also offer practical guidance and tips on searching and evaluating the Internet effectively :

Gateways

A good way of finding good quality resources on the Web is to use subject gateways. These are sites where internet resources are collected, described and (sometimes) evaluated for a particular subject area:

  • Pinakes this site links to all the key subject gateways, which provide good qualtiy internet sites for all subject areas.

Organisations and associations

Catalogues of other libraries

Find out what else has been published in your subject area:

  • Bodleian Library access to the University of Oxford's online catalogue
  • British Library access to the online catalogue of the British Library
  • COPAC access to the union catalogue of the Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles (CURL)
  • HERO includes access to the Library catalogues of other Higher Education Institutions - choose University & Colleges and Resources and then OPACs in Britain.

Search engines

Search engines will search the entire Internet for your topic but they do not evaluate any sites: