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Online
Research
Resources to help you research and write research papers and term
papers:
If you visit several of the following Web sites,
you may find some overlap in their links to other sources, and
some of them are cross-linked to each other. If you have
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Cyber
Reference Desk: Online Reference Works; Grammar, Usage, and
Style -- Manuals and Handouts; Online Tutoring; Advice for
Writers; and Other Web "Reference Desk" Pages.
Includes many links to college and university online resources for
writing .
The
Virtual Reference Desk: Maintained by libraries at Purdue
University, this Web site has links to documents of various
federal government agencies, including the IRS, U.S. Census
Bureau, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, White House Home Page,
U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Supreme Court Decisions,
Government Printing Office, National Archives, the 1998 U.S.
Budget, and the Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR)
Program developed by the Department of Energy. Other links
are Information Technology; Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Acronyms;
Phone Books and Area Codes; Maps and Travel Information; Science
Data; ZIP and International Country Codes; and Other Reference
Sources. Note: Since the original Web address for
The Virtual Reference Desk has changed, we
are linking you to Purdue Library's Web Site Map.
Online Resources
for Writers: Links to various writing resources from Carnegie
Mellon, Duke, and Purdue Universities, and the University of
Illinois. Additional links include several English dictionaries,
thesauri, Foreign Language Dictionaries, English as a Second
Language Resources, Composition and Rhetoric Resources,
Computer-Mediated Communication Resources, and other
resources.
Writing
Centers Online: Links to dozens of college and university
online resources for writing, maintained by the International
Writing Centers Association.
Online Writing Labs (OWL):
Using the Internet Online Services, & CD-Roms for
Writing Research and Term Papers, a book available from amazon.com.
Merriam-Webster
Collegiate Dictionary's online version. Just enter your word
or phrase and click on search. Thesaurus also available.
Dictionaries galore: Visit yourDictionary.com.
In addition to the dictionaries found under On-line reference
works, The Virtual Reference Desk, and Online
Resources for Writers listed elsewhere on this page, this Web
site has online dictionaries for a multitude of foreign languages,
including ones where neither of the two languages cross-referenced
is English, such as Chinese-Japanese-Korean Online Dictionary.
You'll also find special-purpose dictionaries such as medical,
legal, and computing.
Online research tools:
American Memory:
a collection of reference materials relating to American culture
and history. For a broad array of topics, you will find
prints and photos, documents, motion pictures, maps, and sound
recordings.
World
Factbook: a detailed encyclopedic file on every country,
maintained by the CIA. Contains extensive
socioeconomic data, population statistics, and area maps.
U.S. POPClock
Projection: for the latest population estimates, visit this
Web site of the U.S. Census Bureau. Get estimates for
states, counties, metropolitan areas. An array of data on
social and demographic characteristics is provided. Read
about the methodology used in deriving estimates and projections.
The National
Trust for Historic Preservation Library:
"Established in 1986 on the campus of the University of
Maryland, College Park, the National Trust for Historic
Preservation Library Collection (NTL) serves the nation as a
central repository for valuable materials pertaining to historic
preservation." You'll find an index to over 300
periodicals and access to The Online Library Catalog of the
University System of Maryland.
The WWW Virtual Library,
a vast virtual warehouse of Web sites organized by topic.
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