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Firstfind.info
http://www.firstfind.info/
Easy to find, easy to use, in plain & simple English. Browsable topics, a project of the Westchester Library System, NY. |
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. "The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections."
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Intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 115524 records. |
iTools
http://www.itools.com/
"Quick access to the best Internet tools"--Search tools, Language tools, Research tools, Financial Tools, Map Tools, Internet Tools, Find People. |
Langenberg -- Search and Get There Faster
http://www.langenberg.com/
"Use the www.Langenberg.Com search site and get there faster. There you will find an extensive web based phone book section with areas dedicated to white pages, yellow pages, reverse directory and area codes. Search the web thoroughly using keyword searches, category searches, metasearches and news groups. The reference section contains language translation, dictionaries, encyclopedias and acronyms. Various map servers provide more usable street maps depending on the address that you enter. You can generate multiple maps from one page -- and get there faster. You might also want to visit travel directions and zip codes in the Geographic section." |
Library of Congress Research Tools (Library of Congress)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/tools.html
The Library of Congress offers a wide variety of online databases and Internet resources to the public via the Web, including its own online catalog. In addition, LC provides an easy-to-use gateway for searching other institutions' online catalogs and extensive links to resources on the Internet. |
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
http://www.ndltd.org/browse.en.html
As stated on the web site, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog is dedicated to “improving graduate education by developing accessible digital libraries of theses and dissertations.? Because this project is still evolving, there are different interfaces with different coverage. The largest, hosted by OCLC, currently contains records for over 98,000 electronic theses and dissertations from over 40 institutions worldwide. You can search by title, creator, contributor, or abstract and limit by topic, institution, year or language. Records provide abstracts of the work, along with a link to the full text when access is unrestricted. While there is scanty documentation and currently no online help, this project is evolving into a valuable metasearch tool for electronic theses and dissertations residing in disparate institutional repositories. --RUSA Best Ref List |
The New York Times Technology CyberTimes Navigator
http://www.nytimes.com/navigator/
"For more than 10 years, the Newsroom Navigator has been used by New York Times reporters and editors as the starting point for their forays onto the Web. Its primary intent is to give the news staff a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around to find a useful set of links of their own. The list is by its nature highly selective and constantly changing. Suggestions are always welcome. Maintained by Rich Meislin. Revised 2/25/07." |
Online Research Tools / Research Resources
http://researchresources.blogspot.com/
Research Resources (ResearchResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for research which are listed below. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet expert, author, keynote speaker, and consultant. His latest white papers include Searching the Internet, Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources, and Knowledge Discovery Resources 2007. All of his Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs and his white papers are available from WhitePapers.us. |
Questia - The Online Library of Books and Journals
http://www.questia.com/
Questia gives you access to:
- 1.5 million articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers
- Unlimited use of the collection - no book is ever checked out!
- Powerful online research tools
[You are asked to) Sign up for Questia's email newsletter and get FREE access to featured books in each issue. [This appears on a pop-up window which you must respond to or close to see the website. Searches are free but most information is not.]
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Research and Documentation Online
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
The late Diana Hacker wrote reference books on various writing-related topics; and this, her web site, is an incredibly rich repository of resources for researching, writing and citing materials. While resources like the Glossary of Library and Web Terms are very useful, the real standout here is the extensive explanation of documentation styles. Four of the major styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, CBE) are represented here (divided by area: Humanities, Social Sciences, History, Sciences). Users can access examples of each type of citation using drop down menus or see the styles in action by perusing sample papers written in each style. The research guides are basic, but solid. This site is an excellent resource for anyone who uses one of the major citation styles as well as for students who need basic assistance in starting their research. |
Research Strategies, online text by William Badke
http://www.acts.twu.ca/LBR/preface.htm
A condensed version of a print edition published in 2004. Subtitle: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog. |
Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web
http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html
This directory provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees. University of Houston Libraries. |
SMEALSearch: Academic Business Literature Digital Library
http://smealsearch2.psu.edu/index.html/
SMEAL College of Business, Penn State. Search for business documents on a specific subject or by a specific author. |
SparkNotes- Today's Most Popular Study Guides
http://www.sparknotes.com/
Sparknotes.com provides free access to online study guides in the areas of literature, the arts and sciences. While Sparknotes began as a site offering guides to literary classics (featuring summaries, plot analysis, character lists, themes and motifs, ? la Cliff Notes), the collection has grown to include subject areas like health, nutrition, computer science, and biography. Major works can be sorted by author or title. Information about how to cite Sparknotes is also readily available on the site. A recent addition is an online test preparation area. While Sparknotes also offers the guides in print format to those who wish to purchase them from Barnes and Noble, the majority of the information is free, and Sparknotes.com is easy to navigate making it an excellent web site for students and researchers alike. --RUSA Best Ref Sites List |
Straight Dope Front Page
http://www.straightdope.com/
Once referred to as “possibly the world's greatest reference librarian?(American Libraries, February 1995 page146), Cecil Adams has been answering questions via his alternative newspaper column, “The Straight Dope,?since 1973. This online archive includes most of the questions and answers from the past quarter century. Entertaining and informative, Cecil over the years has answered questions like: Why do wintergreen Life Savers spark when crunched? What are the real lyrics to "Louie Louie"? and How do you become a United Nations weapons inspector? The archive is keyword searchable, and the last four years of columns can be browsed by date. --RUSA Best Ref Sites List |
Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information
http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM
"The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes 1,943 indexed titles. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated." Marian Dworaczek. |
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