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Useful Research Links
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information on
Search Engines and Indexes
Excite
http://www.excite.com
Provides a wide variety of reviews and cataloging strategies.
Infoseek
http://www2.infoseek.com
Offers a number of "smart search" functions.
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com
Home of the "Top 5% of the Web" database.
Magellan
http://www.mckinley.com
Includes thousands of reviews and ratings for Web pages on various topics.
WebCrawler
http://webcrawler.com
Features the SearchTicker, which "continuously displays actual searches that people are
doing on WebCrawler."
Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com
The oldest and perhaps the most popular search service.
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Newsgroups and Listservs
Deja News
http://www.dejanews.com/
A search engine for newsgroups.
Liszt, the mailing list directory
http://www.liszt.com/
A guide to and index of a wide variety of mailing lists.
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General Reference
On-line Reference Works at Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/references.html
A useful collection of general reference materials (including the items listed below); see
also the CMU Library's Reference Tools page.
Hypertext Webster Gateway
http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster
A hypertext dictionary and thesaurus.
OneLook Dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/
Especially useful for looking up technical terms, this database searches 107 different
dictionaries containing a total of over 300,000 specialized terms.
ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus Search Form
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
A hypertext version of Roget's Thesaurus, version 1.02 (supplemented: July 1991).
CIA Publications and Handbooks
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html
The Central Intelligence Agency has an accessible database that contains basic
information about every country in the world (the "World Factbook"), maps,
diagrams, and other publicly available information.
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Online Writing Centers/ Labs
LEO: Literacy Education Online at St. Cloud State University
http://leo.stcloud.msus.edu/
An easy to use site that provides excellent answers to a number of questions writers
commonly ask.
The Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab (OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
One of the first writing labs to go online, this is still one of the best. Besides offering
excellent handouts and writing links, this page also contains links to many other online
writing labs.
The Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin
http://uwc.fac.utexas.edu/
A well-organized and very complete collection of resources for student writers at all
levels.
"The Online Writery" at the University of Missouri
http://www.missouri.edu/~writery/
Besides offering a variety of writing tools and links, the "writery" also helps writers at all
levels get together online through Interactive Web Forums (similar to newsgroups on the
Web), a site to post and read online essays, a site to email "cybertutors" questions and
concerns about writing, and a mailing list called the "Writery Café."
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Other Web Databases for Writers
Teaching undergrads WEB evaluation
http://www.ala.org/acrl/undwebev.html
This site, sponsored by the American Library Association, offers students
and teachers a set of criteria for evaluating Web pages for research
purposes.
Inkspot
http://www.inkspot.com/
A very good and very complete site geared mostly toward "professional" writers, though
there is plenty of useful information here for writers at any level. Among the many
features Inkspot provides are links to newgroups and mailing lists for writers, information
and links to sites on how to publish writing in various genres, software for writers, and
writer's reference materials.
The Library of Congress Home Page
http://lcweb.loc.gov
Provides links to the catalog of the Library of Congress, exhibits, and online events at the
library as well as links to bills under consideration by the House of Representatives and
the Senate, House and Senate committee information, and information about other
activities in the federal government.
The Official Misc.Writing Web Site
http://www.scalar.com/mw/
The Web site companion to the newsgroup misc. writing, this site offers a variety of tips
and links for all sorts of writers.
Voice of the Shuttle
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/
An excellent site for research in the humanities.
The WWW Virtual Library
http://www.w3.org/pub/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
Functions like an encyclopedia of the World Wide Web. This is a good place to turn for
general Web research on almost any category.
Writer's Resources
http://www.arcana.com/shannon/books/writing.html
"Resources for any type of writer, from general grammar and research help, to resources
for writers of specific genres." Maintained by Shannon Turlington Settle.
The Writing Centre: Top Ten Errors, Markers' Marks, Handy Tricks, and a Quick
Fix
http://www.scar.utoronto.ca/tweb/inkpot/E.html
A handy and quick list of common grammatical errors and how to fix them.
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