SECTION 2: STRATEGIES FOR LOCATING RELIABLE HIV/AIDS INFORMATION ON THE WEB

FINDING ORGANIZATION WEB SITES: .org

You may know of a local, state, or national organization or association, but you might NOT know its URL or address on the Web. (URLs were discussed in Section 1.)

Organization and association Web site URLs always end in the .org domain:
http://www.name.org

But, you can NOT always rely on being able to enter an association's acronym or initials:

American Heart Association -- AHA	http://www.americanheart.org (http://www.aha.org was already claimed by the American Hospital Association)
American Lung Association -- ALA	http://www.lungusa.org (http://www.ala.org was already claimed by the American Library Association)
Gay Men's Health Crisis -- GMCH	http://www.gmhc.org
National Association of People With AIDS -- NAPWA	http://www.napwa.org
AIDS Education Global Information System -- AEGIS	http://www.aegis.org

To find an organization Web site, first try typing the acronym.org into the address bar of your Web browser. If that does not take you to the correct site, you can then go to your favorite search engine, and do a phrase search for the name of the organization or association. The organization name should appear near the top of the search engine results list. (Details about using search engines are covered in Section 3 of this tutorial.)

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