The Internet contains an ever-growing number of resources that vary greatly in quality and purpose. A quick search may turn up intriguing topic ideas or slants, but it also will turn up thousands — maybe millions — of Web pages of uncertain relevance. These pages are far more likely to be motivated by the desire to sell something, to promote an opinion, to socialize, or to attract you to an advertising platform than to meet your academic research needs. They also will not necessarily be grouped by academic field or be designed to meet any academic standards. And even if you believe that a Web search with millions of returns has located everything that exists, it will not include the thousands of private, corporate, or government sites from the “deep” or “hidden” Web that requires passwords, limits access, or simply has not yet been indexed. The sheer bulk of this information makes searching for relevant research materials both too easy and too difficult, but a few basic principles can help.