Research Guides: Reliable Animal Health Information: Search Tips

Web Search Tips

Six Tips for Web Searching from DVM360 (2016)
"When you’re searching the web for medical information about your pet, make sure you’re getting accurate medical information from reliable sources. Use these six tips for safer web surfing."
Source: http://veterinarymedicine.dvm360.com/client-handout-google
More Google Search Tips
Complete Guide to Searching using Google

Search Tip: Use Advanced search in Google and limit to .edu or .gov or .org domains when searching the Web to filter out Web commercial or .com sites where the relationship between content and advertising may not be clear.

Sample search:

[hedgehog husbandry] limited to .edu domains

More Search Tips

WorldCat -- access to books, articles, theses and more from libraries worldwide
WorldCat can be helpful for husbandry questions, especially exotics: try a search for[hedgehog husbandry] for example. By searching WorldCat, your search is automatically filtered to materials selected by librarians worldwide.
Veterinary Libriares Directory by Region and Country
Can't find the info you need to make a decision on behalf of an animal? Veterinary librarians are expert searchers who have access to databases like CAB ABSTRACTS only available by subscription that Web search engines can't reach.

Fact Sheet on Web site Evaluation

"What Veterinary Information Can You Trust?" Dr.Beth Davidow, DVM DACVECC in th Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Critically evaluate all information with the fact sheet below.

Fact Sheet -- How to Evaluate Health Web sites
Adapted from the National Cancer Information Service by the veterinary trade publisher http://www.dvm360.com/