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Table of Contents
How To Be A Successful Student
How To Be A Successful Student
General
Student Resources OnlineSome Basic Advice from Professor Jerome Breitenbach
WritingStrunk's Elements of StyleLibrary UseLibrary of Congress Call Number SystemReading
Some Ideas On How To Read A Philosophy PaperRemindersHave trouble remembering when assignments are due? Send yourself reminders by email on any date in the future!
Some Online Research ResourcesStudentMarket.com
A place to buy student-oriented stuff.U-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
Use Babel Fish to translate web pages into your preferred language!b. Statistics
Fedstats 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
History House - puts the story in history!d. PolicyHyperhistory Online - an encyclopedia of history.
Public Agenda - discussions of current policy issues from multiple viewpointse. Psychology
Almanac of Policy Issues - distills lots of facts and figures
Speakout.com - discussions of public policy issues
Social Psychology Network - 15,000+ links & detailed organization!Psych Web - very useful site!
American Psychological Association - lots of info.!
f. MiscellaneousResearch Institute for the Humanities/HUMANUM - a very good collection of links, organized by topic (History, Religion, Literature, Fine Arts, Computers, Philosophy, etc.).Med-Bio World - 35,000+ links to medical, bioscience, psychology, etc. journals and organizations.
Library of Congress
1. Meta-Search Engines
Dogpile - searches several major search engines. Results returned separately from each engine.
Surfwax - new tech.
Clusty.com - organizes results into thematic clusters
ixquick - allows searches in 18 languages!
Search.com - searches dozens of other search engines!
Meta360.com - searches up to 12 search engines thoroughly.
ithaki - meta-search engine that allows you to search in 14 languages!
2. Topic Search EnginesSearch Engine Guide - lists thousands of topic-specific search engines.
3. 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.)
Bing - new Microsoft thing.
Alltheweb.com - fastest search engine on the web!
Reference Works OnlineAlta Vista - pages organized in detail by topic.4. About Search EnginesYahoo - (Sites are ranked by humans.)
Open Directory - one of the largest directories on the internet!
Ditto.com - specializes in image searches.
Ask - formerly Ask Jeeves. He apparently died.
For ratings, information and lists of search engines, try Search Engine Watch.
a. Online DictionariesOne Look Dictionaries - check a definition from 6 million+ words from 993 dictionaries.
b. Online Encyclopedias(1) Generalc. Online Almanacs and Maps
Encyclopedia.com - an encyclopedia on the web.Free Reality Encyclopedia Page - allows you to search numerous online encyclopedias.
Wikipedia - anyone can add or modify articles! (Which is why you don't want to use it for serious research or writing college papers!)
Scholarpedia - wiki restricted to scholars.
(2) Subject Specific
(3) Links to Additional EncyclopediasEncyclopedia of Psychology - nearly 2,000 links to websites devoted to psychology.
The Encyclopedia of Life - soon to have everything known about every species on the planet.
Internet Mental Health Encyclopedia
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 8,200+ artists, over 100,000 links.
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 MagazinesBiographical Dictionary Online - information on 33,000+ people.e. Mythology/Religion
Biography.com - information on 25,000 people
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 MeasuresMega-converter2 converts scores of types of measurement (metric, kitchen, ancient, etc., etc.) for you online!g. QuotationsFamous Quotations.com - 100,000+ 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.
Martindale's Reference Desk - information on a huge variety of subjects, thoroughly organized!
Libraryspot.com - a virtual library, complete with reference desk!
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.
FindArticles.com
OIAster - free access to scholarly articles.
High Wire Press - 1.8 million plus free full-text science articles
GoogleScholar
Links To LinksMetagrid.com - lists 8,000 magazines and newspapers with sites on the Internet, organized by subject.
Directory of Open Access Journals - devoted to scholarly journals - 4,220+ journals.
New Jour - guide to 10,000+ newer online magazines.
E-zines - a guide to 4,300+ offbeat internet publications.
Magazines by Subject - very large selection!
Old MagazinesInternet Library of Early Journals - texts of 17th and 18th century magazines.Harper's Weekly - Civil War era issues online.
Popular Magazines
Annals of Improbable Research
Online NewsAtlantic MonthlyAviation Week and Space Technology
Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Federation of American Scientists - military news
Journal of the American Medical Association
The New England Journal Of Medicine
The Philosopher's Web Magazine
General News
BBC News - British news organization
CNN
MSNBCNewspapersNewshub.com - news updated every 15 minutes!
News at Seven - customize your news show and have it presented by virtual broadcasters!
(a) General
New York TimesBusiness(b) LocalOnline Newspapers Around The World
The 250 best online newspapers around the world.
Columnists - links opinion columns and letters to the editor - searchable!
The Advocate (Baton Rouge)The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette)
The Daily Iberian (New Iberia)
The Independent (Acadiana)
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
Wall Street JournalCrimeRedherring.com - focuses on business technology.
America's Most WantedMilitary News
Defense News
Federation of American Scientists
NATO NewsParanormal & WeirdCommittee for the Scientific Investigation of the Paranormal (CSICOP)Science
Space/Astronomy NewsThe Why Files - explains the science behind the headlines.
EurekAlert - reports news from professional journals
NASA homepageSportsESPNTechnologyCnetTVZap2it.com
University NewsU-Wire - features news related to universities.U. S. Government
WeatherThomas - Congressional legislative info. from the Library of Congress.
Intellicast - satellite maps, etc., for world weather.
Questia Online - huge online library! 70,000+ books! 2 million+ articles!
The Bartlby Project - a large selection of classic books, plus poems and quotations!The English Server - 35,211+ works online!
Project Gutenberg - 6267+ texts online.
The Online Books Page - 35,000+ books online!
Internet Classics Archive - 441 works provided by MIT.
The Internet Public Library - 20,000+ books, and periodicals, online.
Bibliomania - 2000+ searchable fiction and non-fiction texts, includes study guides.
Readprint.com - thousands of word searchable books, mostly fiction.
