These links are
intended to be a guide to useful information sites on the web.
N.B.: I cannot be responsible for their content!
Table of Contents
How To Be A Successful Student
How To Be A Successful Student
General
Student Resources OnlineCollege Prep 101
Top Ten Bits of Advice from Dr. Korcz's Previous Students
Dr. Korcz's How To Survive Your First Philosophy Class
WritingStrunk's Elements of StyleLibrary UseLibrary of Congress Call Number SystemReminders
Have trouble remembering when assignments are due? Send yourself reminders by email on any date in the future!
Some Online Research ResourcesU-Wire - features news related to universities.
Peterson's - an online guide to universities, describing both graduate and undergraduate programs, advice on standardized exams, etc.
a. Online Foreign Language TranslationSearch Engines
Google Translateb. Statistics
Data.gov provides all sorts of statistics from the federal government.c. HistoryBureau of Justice Statistics Home Page
National Opinion Research Center
PollingReport.com - summarizes numerous polls
d. PolicyHyperhistory Online - an encyclopedia of history.
Digital Collections - from the Library of Congress
Public Agenda - discussions of current policy issues from multiple viewpointse. Psychology
Social Psychology Network - 20,000+ links & detailed organization!Psych Web - very useful site!
American Psychological Association - lots of info.!
f. Misinformation
Short videos that help inoculate against misinformation online
g. Miscellaneous
TED - ideas.
Library of Congress
1. Meta-Search Engines
Dogpile - searches several major search engines. Results returned separately from each engine.
Startpage - advertises privacy.
2. Topic Search EnginesSearch Engine Guide - lists thousands of topic-specific search engines.3. Scholarly Search Engines
BASE - Searches open access academic documents
4. General Search Engines
Google - Indexes Billions of web pages! Largest search engine on the web! (Sites are ranked acording to how many other pages link to them.)
Ask - formerly Ask Jeeves. He apparently died.
DuckDuckGo - one page results, no tracking.
Reference Works Online
a. Online DictionariesOne Look Dictionaries - check a definition from 18+ million words from 1,061 dictionaries.
b. Online Encyclopedias(1) Generalc. Online Almanacs and Maps
Encyclopedia.com - an encyclopedia on the web.Scholarpedia - wiki restricted to scholars.
(2) Subject Specific
(3) Links to Additional EncyclopediasThe Encyclopedia of Life - soon to have everything known about every species on the planet.
WebMD - lots of information on diseases.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian - FAQs from the Smithsonian Institution, devoted mostly to the physical sciences.
Webopedia - online dictionary of internet and computer terms.
Artcyclopedia - articles on 9,000+ artists, over 160,000 links.
Platonic Realms - a Mathematics Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Astronautica - astronauts, space vehicles, etc.
Encyclopedias on the Web
Information Please - an online almanac.Atlapedia.com - online atlas and facts about countries
CountryReports.org - facts about countries, and they even have national anthems you can hear online!
d. Biographical InformationOnline News Magazines
Biography.com - information on 7,000 peoplee. Mythology/Religion
Chamber's Biographical Dictionary on-line - 17,000+ entries
Encyclopedia Mythica - huge array of articles on mythologies from numerous cultures.Encyclopedia Mystica - information on the occult.
f. Weights and MeasuresOnlineConversion.com converts scores of types of measurement (metric, kitchen, ancient, etc., etc.) for you online!g. Quotations
h. MiscellaneousCreative Quotations - 50,000+ quotations with sources.
Quoteland.com - organized by topic.
Aphorisms Galore - lives up to its title!
Guinness Book of World RecordsVirtual Reference Desk - news, magazines, etc. online.
i-Tools - search a wide variety of reference works.
Detailed information about all 50 states.
Search for Articles Free OnlineMagportal.com - allow you to search or browse articles available from over 100 mainstream magazines (Forbes, Time, U.S. News, Scientific American, SPIN, etc.) with free articles online.
OIAster - free access to scholarly articles.
High Wire Press - 2.4 million plus free full-text science articles
GoogleScholar
Links To Links
Directory of Open Access Journals - devoted to scholarly journals - 12,000+ journals.
Online News
Old Magazines
Harper's Weekly - Civil War era issues online.
General News
BBC News - British news organization
CNN
NBC NewsNewspapers
(a) General
New York TimesBusiness(b) LocalThe 250 best online newspapers around the world.
The Advocate (Baton Rouge)The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette)
The Daily Iberian (New Iberia)
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
Wall Street JournalFake News DetectionRedherring.com - focuses on business technology.
Fact-Checking, Verification and Fake News
Factcheck.org
Snopes.com
Politifact
Media Bias/ Fact Check - rates news sources for bias.
Health News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Military News
Defense News
Federation of American Scientists
NATO NewsParanormal & Weird
War is Boring
Jane's Defence
Skeptical InquirerScience
Space/Astronomy NewsEurekAlert - reports news from professional journals
NASA homepageSportsESPNTVZap2it.com
University NewsU-Wire - features news related to universities.U. S. Government
The Chronicle of Higher Education
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
WeatherCongress.gov - Congressional legislative info. from the Library of Congress.
Intellicast - satellite maps, etc., for world weather.
National Hurricane Center
National Weather Service
The Internet Archive - 20,000,000+ books!
Harvard's Open Collections Program - over 6 million items digitized
Project Gutenberg - 70,000+ texts online.
The Online Books Page - 3 million+ books online!
The Free Library - 29 million+ articles and books
Internet Classics Archive - 441 works of classical literature provided by MIT.
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