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Book-Specific 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 JEEVES http://www.ask.com Maintained by Iowa State University, this site features a hypertext version of Aristotle's famous advice on how to properly present an argument and why "some speakers succeed." DOGPILE http://www.dogpile.com Dogpile searches using up to fourteen engines at the same time. http://www.google.com Google performs key word searches of more than 2 billion URLs, resulting pages that match all of your search terms, either in the text of the page or in the text of the links pointing to the page. 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. INFOSEEK http://www.infoseek.com Infoseek allows you to search Web sites, a directory of reviewed sites, news stories, company biographies, or Usenet groups. LYCOS http://www.lycos.com Lycos's advanced search can narrow a search to music, home pages, news downloads, and other multimedia documents. TEOMA http://www.teoma.com This search engine lists pages using subject-specific popularity. 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. IXQUICK http://ixquick.com Ixquick is a speedy metasearch tool that searches fourteen other engines or directories at the same time using key words. PROFUSION http://www.profusion.com Another metasearch engine using key words. 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 websites 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'S DICTIONARY ON THE NET http://www.m-w.com Wild card searches: if you recall how to spell only the beginning of carabiner (an oblong, hinged metal ring used in climbing), you can enter carab* and choose carabiner from the list of words that begin with carab-. 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. ELIBRARY http://www.elibrary.com Calling itself "research without legwork," this site partners with organizations such as NPR, network news organizations, major magazines and newspapers, small presses, international publications, and reference books to find relevant articles on your topic. 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/teen/aplus/stepfirst.htm 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. STARTING POINTS FOR INTERNET RESEARCH http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/tools/research.html This Online Writing Lab resource page provides an excellent list of Web-based primary source documents organized by discipline and prefaced with a brief guide to Internet Research strategies. 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. THE DIRECTORY OF SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL E-CONFERENCES http://www.kovacs.com/directory This directory of e-conferences holds the best searchable database of scholarly and professional discussions, covering email lists, Usenet groups, MUDs, and MOOs, and offering a great forum for finding people interested in and knowledgeable about your research area. 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/legacy/assd3/infozone/ This site clusters resources under steps in the research process: Wondering, Seeking, and Choosing. Even though it was designed for KŠ12 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. A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO RESEARCH WITH THE WWW http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research Maintained by St. Louis University's Department of English, this site gives tips for evaluating Web sources and reading a Web page, with discussion of different types of Web pages and a full tutorial on Web search strategies. 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 FAQ (AND NOT SO FAQ) http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq.html This site features FAQs, suggestions, and links to help you style your online and print documents consistently. THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO ONLINE STYLE http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/basic.html This companion site to The Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor presents an overview of citing electronic sources for both humanities and science papers. CITATION GUIDES FOR INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC SOURCES http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm#Style 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. 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