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EasyWriter Resources / Links / Reference Resources and Research Tools SEARCH TOOLS ALTAVISTA http://www.altavista.com AltaVista lets you search the Web using either subject directories or key words and phrases. ASK http://www.ask.com Use ask.com to search the Web or use search tools to find news, images, or maps. DOGPILE http://www.dogpile.com Dogpile searches using up to fourteen engines at the same time. GO http://www.go.com Go allows you to search Web sites, a directory of reviewed sites, news stories, company biographies, or Usenet groups. http://www.google.com Google performs key word searches of more than 2 billion URLs. HOTBOT http://www.hotbot.com Search over 110 million Web sites using subject directories, key words, phrases, names, or URLs and narrow the search to specific dates, media, and other criteria. IXQUICK http://ixquick.com Ixquick is a speedy metasearch tool that searches fourteen other engines or directories at the same time using key words. LYCOS http://www.lycos.com Lycos's advanced search can narrow a search to music, home pages, news downloads, and other multimedia documents. PROFUSION http://www.profusion.com Another metasearch engine using key words. WEBCRAWLER http://www.webcrawler.com WebCrawler performs key word searches using multiple search engines simultaneously and then eliminates any duplicate listings from the results. YAHOO! http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo! allows you either to search directories related to particular subjects (such as entertainment or education) or to enter key word searches. For the broadest search, Yahoo! automatically forwards some queries to their partner, Google, for a search of the entire Web. ZWORKS http://www.zworks.com Hailing itself as the "metasearch loved by parents and webmasters alike" because of its filters, this search engine uses key words and also ranks results for relevancy. back to top REFERENCE RESOURCES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS http://www.loc.gov The official Web site of "the nation's oldest federal cultural institution" features extensive, searchable archives and databases on American history and culture. THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu Hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, this site offers links to books, library collections, journals, and multimedia resources. Its mission is to provide "access to all human knowledge-anytime, anywhere." THE ELECTRONIC TEXT CENTER http://etext.lib.virginia.edu Maintained by the University of Virginia's library, this site features a list of useful Web design standards and suggestions for optimizing an online document's effectiveness. THE VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE http://vos.ucsb.edu Directed by Alan Liu at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Voice of the Shuttle is an exhaustive Web site for humanities research, featuring links to many disciplines and their journals. GOOGLE GROUPS http://groups.google.com Sometimes you can't find anyone who can talk with you about a topic. If so, try Google Groups, a tool for searching Usenet discussion groups. BERKELEY DIGITAL LIBRARY http://sunsite.berkeley.edu Berkeley's Digital Library offers search tools and catalogs for finding information in digital collections around the world. ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ON THE WEB http://www.thesaurus.com A wonderful tool site offering hypertextual searches of the famed thesaurus. ASK A+ LOCATOR http://www.vrd.org/locator/subject.shtml The Virtual Reference Desk provides a list of Web sites that specialize in answering reference or personal questions on a variety of subjects from art to health. COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA http://www.bartleby.com/65/ Claiming to be "the most complete and up-to-date encyclopedia ever produced," the sixth edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia contains over fifty thousand entries with more than eighty thousand hypertext cross-references. MERRIAM-WEBSTER ONLINE http://www.m-w.com This Web site features an array of online resources from Merriam-Webster and allows wild card searches for its searchable dictionary and thesaurus. For example, if you cannot recall how to spell incriminate (to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault), you can enter incrim* and the site will generate a list of words beginning with incrim- for you to choose from. YOURDICTIONARY.COM http://www.yourdictionary.com Links to dictionaries in over 260 languages, glossaries in 60 disciplines and professions, rhyming dictionaries, phrase and quotation dictionaries, thesauri, and more. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS http://www.bls.gov The U.S. government lists extensive statistics on labor issues such as wages, inflation, productivity, the economy, and unemployment. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH http://www.nih.gov If you're looking for health and science information, the NIH posts information on clinical trials, medical conditions, drug information, health and wellness publications, and special NIH projects on AIDS research, women's health, minority health, and bioethics. NEWSDIRECTORY http://www.newsdirectory.com This free directory of newspapers, magazines, television stations, colleges, visitor bureaus, and governmental agencies is your extensive guide to online English-language media. HIGHBEAM http://www.highbeam.com/library/index.asp An extensive online archive of more than 35 million documents from over 3,000 sources. You can search by entering a phrase, key word, or full question. back to top ONLINE RESEARCH GUIDES A+ RESEARCH AND WRITING http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/aplus The Internet Public Library offers this step-by-step approach to doing research, focusing on the beginning of research: preparing the assignment, discovering information, formulating a thesis, and gathering information. This site has many useful links for both writing and research. BEDFORD/ST. MARTIN'S ENGLISH RESEARCH ROOM http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/english_research Maintained by Bedford/St. Martin's, this site is a helpful source for information on conducting Internet research and writing research papers. FINDING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET: A TUTORIAL http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html Maintained by the University of California at Berkeley's library, this site is continually updated and keeps track of new trends in search engine protocols and browser developments, incorporating them into self-directed tutorials. INFO ZONE http://www.pembinatrails.ca/infozone This site clusters resources under steps in the research process: Wondering, Seeking, and Choosing. Even though it was designed for K-12 students, many of the links will prove most useful for the college researcher as well. THE INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY http://www.ipl.org The IPL features useful online reference tools, e-texts, and links to other libraries and research sites on the Internet. EVALUATING WEB SITES: CRITERIA AND TOOLS http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html Cornell University's library provides evaluation criteria, Web site reviews and rankings, and a Webliography. back to top DOCUMENTATION QUOTING, PARAPHRASING, AND SUMMARIZING http://www.umf.maine.edu/~library/plagiarism/q_p_s.html This site from the University of Maine at Farmington gives examples and tips on how to avoid plagiarism by quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing effectively. Also see "What is Plagiarism?" and "How Can You Avoid Plagiarism?" THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE Q&A http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html This site features FAQs, suggestions, and links to help you style your online and print documents consistently. CITATION GUIDES FOR INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC SOURCES http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm The University of Alberta offers this list of style guides, online and off. One of the most comprehensive such lists, with lots of useful links. ELECTRONIC REFERENCE FORMATS RECOMMENDED BY THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html This page gives the APA's most recent advice about using and citing Internet sources. THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION http://www.mla.org The MLA's Web site includes a limited amount of advice—including a useful FAQ on MLA style and their guidelines for citing sources. ONLINE! A REFERENCE GUIDE TO USING INTERNET SOURCES http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online The electronic version of Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger's Online! provides guidelines for documenting online sources using four different styles: MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE. ONLINE OMBUDS NARRATIVE I http://www.ombuds.org/narrative1.html This narrative from the Online Ombudsman describes a case involving a person whose Web site included summaries of one newspaper's articles. The debate provides a good example of how complex the issues of plagiarism and copyright can be in cyberspace. RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION ONLINE http://bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc This companion site to Diana Hacker's print book provides up-to-date citation formats for the humanities, social sciences, history, and sciences. The guide also provides useful information on conducting Internet research. back to top |
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