Like magazine and journal articles, Web sites may focus on very specific topics or aspects of a topic.

You may easily find information on the Web that may be hard-to-find in print.

Information on the Web can be very current and updated frequently, but the opposite can also be true. Some of this information, as on Wikipedia, is provided by "anonymous Internet volunteers"; other sites may not have been fact-checked, and may contain errors.

Web sites of government agencies and professional organizations often provide free access to publications that are also published in print, such as government documents and research reports.

Since there is no "Internet editor" or fact checker, and anyone can publish on the Web. There are a number of well-lnown hoax sites, such as the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division site and Lyle Zapato's pages, created solely for amusement.

You can see that it is important to read critically and to consult more than one source for factual information.