Awadhesh Kumar Shirotriya

Lecturer of Physical Education

M.Phil. (Phy. Edu.), MPE, BPEd, BSc. (P.E., H.E. & Sports)
Department of Physical Education, Anand College of Education Unit of Sharda Group of Institutions (SGI), Agra
In the seventeenth and eightieth centuries, America went through Industrial Revolution, where
Western culture as a whole went from using hand-tools to using machines that mass-produced the
same items. What once took a week to produce now took a day to produce. Now, as we cross over
into the 21st century, we have entered what has been called “Information Age.", or the “The
Information Revolution "We live in a time where information is only a mouse-click away for a large
portion of the country and the world. Up until eight to ten years ago, Scholars had to go to library or
purchase an expensive journals/encyclopedia set for their home just to getting relevant information for
their research work. Now, information is absolutely free and easily accessible from the home. The use
of computers and the Internet by Scholars and educationist in all walks of life increases day by day.

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized
Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that
consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to
global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other
technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the
inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support
electronic mail

The use of the Internet in the educational setting has become in recent years an important
consideration in the promotion of new and more effective teaching methods and protocols. In many
quarters, the use of the Internet in the classroom situation has been seen as a positive advance in
educational praxis. The internet is a vast resource of information. Finding that information can be
tricky. As researcher, we need to learn what we can look for, how to search for it, and how to evaluate
that the information as factual. As the saying goes “All that glitters are not gold”. An intelligent seeker
has to browse thoroughly and lift the matter for their research work from reliable and authentic
websites. It is true that Internet plays a crucial role in access to information resources and it has very
pervasive in education especially in the area of research but all websites available on internet are not
reliable or in other words we can say not authentic.

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 Many reliable statistics, articles, research studies and other information can be found on
government and educational websites. These websites are easily identified because their domain
names end in .edu or .gov. additionally, scholar can conduct a search for only scholarly information.

A domain name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy,

authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS). Domain names are
used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. An
important purpose of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and memorizable names to
numerically addressed Internet resources. This abstraction allows any resource (e.g., website) to be
moved to a different physical location in the address topology of the network, globally or locally in an
intranet.

Top-level domains: The top-level domains (TLDs) are the highest level of domain names of the
Internet. They form the DNS root zone of the hierarchical Domain Name System. Every domain name
ends in a top-level or first-level domain label.GOV, EDU, COM, MIL, ORG, NET, and INT.

Second-level domains: Below the top-level domains in the domain name hierarchy are the second-
level domain (SLD) names. These are the names directly to the left of .com, .net, and the other top-
level domains. As an example, in the domain en.wikipedia.org, wikipedia is the second-level domain.

Third-level domains: Next are third-level domains, which are written immediately to the left of a
second-level domain. There can be fourth- and fifth-level domains, and so on, with virtually no
limitation. An example of an operational domain name with four levels of domain labels is
www.sos.state.oh.us.

The Internet is considered by many to be superior to the best and biggest libraries in the
country. The Internet is provides up to date information on a variety of topics unavailable from other
sources. This superiority exists primarily due to the thousands of organizations, companies and
individuals publishing on the Internet. With such ease of publishing and the wide variety of publishers,
there is almost no subject left off the Internet.
Some suggested websites for scholars/educationist for browsing authentic information for
their research work are as follows:

1. http://www.wikipedia.org/
2. http://www.thefreelibrary.com
3. http://www docstoc.com
4. http://www.scirus.com
5. http://www.findarticles.com
6. http://www.highbeam.com
7. http://www.onlineresearchpaper.com
8. http://www.researchpaperonline.com
9. http://www.pubmed.com
10. http://www.questia.com
11. http://www.informaworld.com
12. http://www.accessmylibrary.com
13. http://scholar.google.com/
14. http://www.academic.live.com/
15. http://www.infomine.ucr.edu/
16. http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
17. http://www.scribd.com
18. http:// oppapers.com
19. http://www.mynetresearch.com
20. www.theonlinethesis.co.uk
21. www.thesisabstracts.com
22. www.masterpapers.com
23. www.allfreeessays.com
24. http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com

Article published in Research Journal of Arts,

Management and Social Sciences (ISSN 0975-4083), Vol. 02,
Year 01, pp. 563-565.