The
Writing Center
at Husson College
Research
Quality
Control
Databases
and Archives
Look also under Search
Engines (which are themselves databases)
Libraries
and Subject Guides
(see also
Search
Engines, many of which, such as Yahoo!,
are edited subject guides themselves)
Government
Information
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My
Virtual Reference Desk Facts about virtually everything, or links to
them
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Research-It!
This site is worth a look, really: Type in a word or phrase and get a definition,
a translation into 20 languages, anagrams, and more. Also a zip-code finder,
a search engine...Worth bookmarking for quick references
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Information
Please Home Page Pulls information from a host of almanacs and encyclopedias.
If you need facts, you'll find quite a few here
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USA
& World Newspapers Thousands of online newspapers, including The
Bangor Daily News
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Yellow
Pages Find a business online. See also BigYellow
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The
Current Time Check if your watch is right
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Biography
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Biographical
Dictionary
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Biography
Library Subject Guide
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Map
Libraries
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MapsOnUs
Type in an address or town and get a street map. Also provides routes to
a location
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CGRER
NetSurfing: Maps and References
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Dave
Wilton's Etymology Page Look up the origins of words
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Bartlett,
John. 1901. Familiar Quotations
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The
Quotations Page
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Editorial
Eye Index A glossary of links for any editor
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Phrase
Finder Type in "sheep" and get "sheep in wolf's clothing" and other
sheep-related phrases
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Bible
Browser Search through the Bible for subjects, phrases, figures
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WEBSONAR
Enter a phrase or word (such as "Call me Ishmael") to find the exact source
or sources
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Calendar
Plug in a date in in two months or fifty years and see what day it falls
on
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Solar
System Simulator Users can input variables to create views of the solar
system
Dictionaries,
Thesauri, Encyclopedias (Other dictionaries
are listed under Languages. See also under majors,
such as Paralegal/Prelaw)
See Languages
for more foreign-language dictionaries
MLA
and APA Documentation
Modern
Language Association sites:
American
Psychological Association sites:
Grammar,
Punctuation, Usage
Literature
General
Reference
Guides
to Writing Literary Papers (see
also under Research)
Shakespeare
(much more under Reference, above)
Glossaries
and Handbooks(see also References)
Other
Resources
Searches
Search
Engines and Subject Trees
For information on how and how
well these and other engines index the web, look at Search
Engine Watch
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Yahoo!
Yet Another Officious Oracle. Subject guide searching, as is CyberTimes
Navigator
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AltaVista
Indexes 150 million sites and offers a useful "Refine" tool that lets you
narrow down your search easily
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Excite
The "Intelligent Concept Extraction" feature is useful if you are looking
for keywords in your search. Relevance feedback lets you know how close
to your request the various hits are. Subject tree included
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Excite
News Restricts searches to recent news items
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HotBot
Users can specify more parameters (the person, the URL, the exact phrase,
etc.) than the other sites, which makes zeroing in on specific data easier.
Check out "SuperSearch." Strong on commercial and news-related sites
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Magellan
Like Excite (it uses the same search engine), this site has "Intelligent
Concept Extraction" and relevance feedback. The "Green Light" feature allows
you to screen out adult sites
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Lycos
Indexes 50 million sites. Returns hits with a list of related sites (by
category)
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Infoseek
Strong on education-oriented sites, Infoseek has a unique tool called "results
clustering" that presents multiple hits on one page as a single hit, making
your search a lot more efficient
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InReference
A site to find, browse, search, and participate in more than 150,000 newsgroups,
mailing lists, and web forums
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Internet
Research Pointer Recommended for beginners to internet research, this
site presents the bewildering array of resources on the internet in an
accessible format
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Search.Com
Offers a list of over 500 specialized search engines geared towards specific
(sometimes very specific) subjects. For example, clicking on "movies" will
take you to moviefinder.com
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Highway
61 is a "meta engine" (as is SavvySearch
and Dogpile), which offers hits from
a number of other engines, in the case of Highway 61, Yahoo! Infoseek,
Lycos, WebCrawler, and Excite. Dogpile searches 14 engines and allows time
parameters in case you want something easily obtainable
Clearinghouses
Clearinghouses
are collections of documents and other sources, usually carefully selected,
on a range of subjects. Good starting places for research because of the
high quality and comprehensiveness of the content.
Resumes
and Jobs
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Resume
- 10 Tips
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THE
Online Guide to preparing effective electronic résumés
for a variety of online situations
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CareerLab
200 cover letters, to start with
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JobWeb
resume writing tips among other bits of advice
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H-Net
Job Guide
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JobHunt:
On-Line Job Meta-List
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CareerWeb
Jobs, careers, resumes, computers, engineering, resume database, jobs database,
books, bookstore, advice
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Online
Career Center
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Cranford
& Associates Medical Personnel Recruiters
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The
Business Job Finder
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Career
Mosaic A giant site that attracts 350,000 job searches DAILY. Post
your resume and wait for a call.
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CareerPath
Posts job listings from 58 national and regional newspapers, including
listings from corporate home pages.
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CareerCity
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The
Riley Guide A useful introduction to job searching online. Includes
links and reviews of employment sites by industry
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Yahoo!
Career center online by the search engine
Business
ESL/Languages
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Foreign
Languages for Travelers Crash courses in over thirty languages
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AltaVista:
Translations Translate your text into and from Spanish, French, Portuguese,
German, or Italian
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Yamada
Language Guides "The definitive guide to language resources on the
World Wide Web." Fonts, newsgroups, language lessons, and links for an
impressive list of languages
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Larry's
Aussie Slang and Phrase Dictionary
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Japanese-Online
Award-winning site teaches you Japanese at your own pace
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Bird
Sounds Digitally recorded sounds of birds: songs, wing sounds, bill
rattles and more
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The
Skeptic's Dictionary
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Cursing
in Swedish
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A
Web of On-line Dictionaries Four hundred dictionaries, thesauri, and
vocabulary texts in 130 languages
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The
Alternative Dictionary of International Slang
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American
Slanguages
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gaelic
language & celtic info
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Hebrew:
A Living Language
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The
Human Languages
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French-EnglishEnglish-French
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Japanese-English,
English-Japanese Dictionary
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English-Russian
Dictionary
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Web
Spanish Lessons
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A
Welsh Course
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Automatic
WWW Text Borkifier Trunsletes yuoor text intu Svedeesh Cheff (from
The
Muppets)
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The
Darmok Dictionary Just in case you want to know how to say "I'm angry"
in a Star Trek language ("With eyes red!")
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PiGz
iN SpAcE Translate any web page into pig latin, if you're so inclined
Sites
for non-native speakers:
Computers
Information Systems
Style
and Editing
Physical
Therapy
Nursing
Paralegal/Prelaw
Life
Sciences/Teacher Education
Accounting
Societies
and associations