Conducting Electronic Research

In this demonstration the researcher uses FirstGov to search for information about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Feel free to click on FirstGov and become the researcher yourself. The screen-shot below illustrates the home page with the keywords entered into the search field.

As you can see, this page is loaded with links. Take a moment and click around the site just to see what information is available. Notice that the for Citizens tab is the default selection on the top-level navigation bar. Notice also that the left-side menu bar can guide you to more specific government organizations and reference sites and that the main body of the page contains a list of subcategories in which you may narrow your search.

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