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Alexa
http://www.alexa.com/
Search engine powered by Google that returns sites with evaluative information
on the sites (reviews, traffic rankings).
Vivisimo
http://vivisimo.com/index.html
A metasearch engine (searches a number of search engines at one time) that clusters
the results into subtopics.
Query Server
http://www.queryserver.com/web.htm
A metasearch engine (searches a number of search engines at one time) that clusters
the results into subtopics.
Google Advanced Search and Web
Directory
http://google.com/
Advanced Search allows for a more specific search. Web Directory is an extensive
collection of websites chosen by actual people in many subject areas.
Google News Search
http://news.google.com/
Lists related articles and when articles were posted - refreshed every 15 minutes.
Google Catalogs
http://catalogs.google.com/
Searches catalogs full-text.
Amazon
Restaurant Menus
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/913908/102-4086815-3980150
Full-text menus searchable by item and restaurant location.
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FirstGov
http://www.firstgov.gov/fgsearch/index.jsp
Limits searching to .gov sites, allows searching in multiple languages and individual
states.
A helpful directory on this site: Locate
In-Person Services Near You: A Citizen Guide
http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Find_Services.shtml
FindLaw
News Document Archive
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/documents/
Official legal documents of stories that are in the news.
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InfoMine - Scholarly Internet
Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research
staff at the university level. Contains useful Internet resources such as databases,
electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online
library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other
types of information. Built and maintained by University Librarians throughout
the nation.
Resources Discovery Network
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
The RDN is a collaboration of over sixty educational and research organizations,
including the Natural History Museum and the British Library. The RDN gathers
resources which are carefully selected, indexed and described by specialists
in the partner institutions.
Scholarly
Societies Project
http://www.scholarly-societies.org/subjects_soc.html
Index to scholarly societies throughout the world.
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UM's assignment calculator
http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/calculator/
Slate
Citation Machine (free citation-producing service (MLA & APA) of the
Landmark Project, a part of the Landmarks for Schools web site for teachers)
http://landmarks4schools.org/citation_machine/cm_book.php3
SurfSaver
http://www.surfsaver.com/
Saves entire web pages to your own searchable files.
MyBookmarks
http://www.mybookmarks.com/
A free Internet service that allows you to keep your browser bookmarks and favorites
online so you can access them from anywhere.
TinyURL
http://tinyurl.com/
Converts a long and complicated URL into a tiny URL that will not break in email
postings and never expires.
Wayback Machine
http://www.archive.org/
Internet Archive - View web pages as they appeared on certain dates.
ISBN.NU
http://www.isbn.nu/
Offers a quick way to compare the prices of any in-print and many out-of-print
books at nine online bookstores. You can view the results with or without the
shipping costs of a single book, and also find the fastest source for a book
from ordering to delivery.
GuideStar
http://www.guidestar.org/
National database of nonprofit organizations - organization heads, financial
and general information.
Give.org
http://www.give.org/about/index.asp
BBB Wise Giving Alliance, affiliated with the Better Business Bureau - information
about charity organizations: financials, percentages of expenditures graphed
in various categories, standards for charitable giving, etc.
Invisible Web.net
http://invisible-web.net/
The Invisible Web Directory - a directory of databases and other sources of
information not indexed by search engines.
Internet
Citation Guides
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Memorial/citing.htm
Prelinger Archives
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Over 1,200 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and
amateur) films made from 1927 through the present.
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
Primary source collections from the Library of Congress National Digital Library
Program.
Best
Information on the Net: Hot Paper Topics
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hotindex.htm
Reviewed links to sites with information about popular term paper topics.
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
Internet Public Library site that aids students in finding research information
on the Web.
Knightcite
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
This is a free citation-producing service (MLA , APA, and Chicago) created by
the Heckman Library at Calvin College.
Knightcite
Learning Object
The
New York Times--College Times
http://www.nytimes.com/college/index.html
A subsite of The New York Times web page, this is designed to "help college
students and faculty find the latest information related to their fields of
study and integrate NY Times content into their academic lives." Registration
required.
Thinking
Critically About WWW Resources http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm
Guide to critical evaluation prepared by the UCLA Library.
WISCAT
http://www.wiscat.net/
Catalog of libraries in the state of Wisconsin.
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Available by clicking on the title of the database below. Access from home
or work is available for these databases, please read the instructions for Off
Campus Users.
Academic
Search Elite
Access to journal and magazine articles from a wide range of academic
areas.
FirstSearch (OCLC)
Very large collection of periodical indexes. Requires password from librarian.
Expanded
Academic ASAP
Access scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers.
General
Reference Center Gold
Diverse general and popular topic database with full-text, abstracts,
and indexing to more than 2700 periodicals.
JSTOR:
Journal Storage Project
Collection of online scholarly journals.
MasterFILE
Premier
Provides full-text from over 1800 general and subject-specific periodicals.
Indexing for over 2700 periodicals.
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Some audio-visual items may help in academic research preparation:
Click on a title to see if it is available
in the library; a new window will open when you click a title.
- 025.56 USING 2000 VIDEO ----- How to do research in the library [videorecording]
- 808.02 DATAB 1994 VIDEO ----- Databases, Boolean searches, and CD-ROM [videorecording]
- 808.02 PLANN 1994 VIDEO ----- Planning an information search [videorecording]
Students may check out Student AV materials and are welcome to view Staff AV
materials in the library.
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Click on a title to see if it is available
in the library; a new window will open when you click a title.
R808.027 G437L 2003
MLA handbook for writers of research papers.
R808.02 T92 1996
A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations.
R808.027 L69
Electronic styles: a handbook for citing electronic information.
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The MATC Library Online Catalog Provides access to books, magazines, reserve material, audio-visual material,
and web resources.
Some useful subject headings to find material on
academic help include report writing and study
skills.
Some useful circulating books for generating term
paper ideas include:
Click on a title to see if it is available
in the library.
371.30281 B34
How to write term papers and reports.
808.02 L232 1998
10,000 ideas for term papers, projects, reports and speeches : intriguing, original
research topics for every student's need.
808.088 M122 1998
How to write themes and essays.
820.76 M652
1001 ideas for English papers : term papers, projects, reports, and speeches.
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