Dr. Korcz's Research Links
 



Last Updated: 8/29/07
Links are current as of 5/17/07

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

Student Resources Online

Online Research Resources

Search Engines

Reference Works Online

Magazines Online

Online News

Online Libraries





How To Be A Successful Student

General
Some Basic Advice from Professor Jerome Breitenbach

Graduate School Survival Guide

College Prrep 101

Top Ten Bits of Advice from Dr. Korcz's Previous Students

Writing
Strunk's Elements of Style

A+ Research and Writing

Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of Language

Library Use
Understanding Call Numbers
Reading
Some Ideas On How To Read A Philosophy Paper
Reminders
Have trouble remembering when assignments are due? Send yourself reminders by email on any date in the future!
Student Resources Online  

StudentMarket.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.
 

Some Online Research Resources
a. Online Foreign Language Translation
Use Babel Fish to translate web pages into your preferred language! 
b. Statistics
 
Fedstats provides all sorts of statistics from the federal government.

Bureau of Justice Statistics Home Page

Education statistics

Global Statistics

The Census Bureau

National Opinion Research Center

Gallup Poll Home Page

c. History
History House - puts the story in history!

Hyperhistory Online - an encyclopedia of history.

The History Guide

d. Policy
Public Agenda - discussions of current policy issues from multiple viewpoints

Almanac of Policy Issues - distills lots of facts and figures

Speakout.com - discussions of public policy issues

Rand Reports
 

e. Psychology
Social Psychology Network - 13,000+ links & detailed organization!

Psych Web - very useful site!


f. Miscellaneous

Research 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
Search Engines
1. Meta-Search Engines
 
Dogpile - searches several major search engines. Results returned separately from each engine.

ixquick - allows searches in 18 languages!

Search.com - searches dozens of other search engines!

Metacrawler

Meta360.com - searches up to 12 search engines thoroughly.

ithaki - meta-search engine that allows you to search in 14 languages!


2. Topic Search Engines

Search 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.)
Alltheweb.com - fastest search engine on the web!
Alta Vista - pages organized in detail by topic.

Hotbot

Yahoo - (Sites are ranked by humans.)

Open Directory - one of the largest directories on the internet!

LookSmart - another large directory.

Ditto.com - searches for images too.

Ask Jeeves - and he will answer.

iwon.com - enter a free lottery with your search.

An Atlas of Cyberspace - a visual guide to the internet.

For more info. about mapping cyberspace, try the Internet Mapping Project.

4. About Search Engines
For ratings, information and lists of search engines, try Search Engine Watch.

Reference Works Online
a. Online Dictionaries
One Look Dictionaries - check a definition from 6 million+ words from 993 dictionaries.

WWWebster Dictionary

Thesaurus Online


b. Online Encyclopedias

(1) General
Encyclopedia.com - an encyclopedia on the web.

The Columbia Encyclopedia online

Free Reality Encyclopedia Page - allows you to search numerous online encyclopedias.

Encarta Encyclopedia Online

Wikipedia - anyone can add or modify articles!

(2) Subject Specific  

Encyclopedia of Psychology - nearly 2,000 links to websites devoted to psychology.

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 7,500+ artists, etc.

Mathematics Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia Astronautica - astronauts, space vehicles, etc.
 

(3) Links to Additional Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias on the Web
c. Online Almanacs and Maps
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 Information
Biographical Dictionary Online - information on 33,000+ people.

Biography.com - information on 25,000 people

Chamber's Biographical Dictionary on-line - 17,000+ entries
e. Mythology/Religion
Encyclopedia Mythica - huge array of articles on mythologies from numerous cultures.

Encyclopedia Mystica - information on the occult.

The Catholic Encyclopedia

Greek Mythology Link


f. Weights and Measures

Mega-converter2 converts scores of types of measurement (metric, kitchen, ancient, etc., etc.) for you online!
g. Quotations
Famous Quotations.com - lots of quotations.

Creative Quotations - 50,000+ quotations with sources.

Quoteland.com - organized by topic

60,000 Quotations

Aphorisms Galore - lives up to its title!

h. Miscellaneous
Guinness Book of World Records

Virtual 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!

Online News Magazines
 
Search for Articles Free Online
Magportal.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 - 10 million articles, many free!

OIAster - free access to scholarly articles.


Links To Links

Metagrid.com - lists 8,000 magazines and newspapers with sites on the Internet, organized by subject.

Directory of Open Access Journals - devoted to scholarly journals - 2,600+ journals.
Periodical Titles on the Internet

New Jour - guide to 10,000+ online magazines.

E-Journal Site Guide

E-zines - a guide to 4,300+ offbeat internet publications.

Magazines by Subject - very large selection!


Old Magazines

Internet Library of Early Journals - texts of 17th and 18th century magazines.

Harper's Weekly - Civil War era issues online.


Contemporary Magazines
 

Annals of Improbable Research
Atlantic Monthly

Archaeology Magazine

Aviation Week and Space Technology

Business Week

Car and Driver

Center for Strategic and International Studies

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Commentary Magazine

Congressional Quarterly

Congressional Record

Discover

The Economist

Education Week

Federation of American Scientists - military news

Forbes Magazine

Fortune

Foreign Affairs

Free Inquiry

Journal of the American Medical Association

Life

Macleans

Money

Mother Jones

The Nation

National Geographic

National Review

Nature

The New England Journal Of Medicine

The New Republic

Newsweek

The Philosopher's Web Magazine

Philosophy Now

Popular Mechanics

Popular Science

Rolling Stone

Science

Science News

Scientific American

Skeptic

The Skeptical Inquirer

Slate

Sports Illustrated

Technology Review

Time

The Times Higher Education Supplement

US News & Woeld Report

USA Weekend

Utne Reader

World Press Review
 

Online News
General News
BBC News - British news organization
CNN
MSNBC

PBS Online Newshour

Newshub.com - news updated every 15 minutes!

ABC News

CBS News

Ananova.com - have the news read to you by computer generated virtual newscaster Ananova.

Newspapers
 
(a) General
New York Times

LA Times

The Washington Post

Chicago Tribune

The Times of London

The Guardian (UK)

Online Newspapers Around The World

The 250 best online newspapers around the world.

Columnists - links opinion columns and letters to the editor - searchable!

(b) Local
The Advocate (Baton Rouge)

The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette)

The Daily Iberian (New Iberia)

The Independent (Acadiana)

The Times of Acadiana

The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Business
Wall Street Journal

Redherring.com - focuses on business technology.

Crime
America's Most Wanted
International News
NATO News
Paranormal & Weird
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Paranormal (CSICOP)

Skeptic.com

James Randi Educational Foundation - site under development, but it looks promising!

The Urban Legends Archive

Snopes.com

Skeptical Information Links

Science
ABC News - Science Section

The Why Files - explains the science behind the headlines.

EurekAlert - reports news from professional journals

Sciencedaily.com

Science and Technology News Network

Space/Astronomy News
NASA homepage
Sports
ESPN

Yahoo Sports

Technology
Cnet
TV
Zap2it.com


University News

U-Wire - features news related to universities.
U. S. Government

Thomas - Congressional legislative info. from the Library of Congress.

Weather
Intellicast - satellite maps, etc., for world weather.

Weather.com

UM Weather


Online Libraries

Questia Online - huge online library! 67,000+ books! 155K+ 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 - 25,000+ books online!

Internet Classics Archive - 441 works provided by MIT.

Etext Archives - a variety of fringe online publications.

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.