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To Use or Not to Use?

My professor says I can't use web sources for my paper. Ask your professor to clarify this, because there are basically two 'webs:'

  • the 'public web' with sites search engines find, and
  • the 'invisible web' which includes databases accessible on the web but typically only available to a library's users off their web page.
with the strengths of the public web
and go back to web-based library resources