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Using the Internet for Research, Learning, and Education

Eric Blue
09/17/2006
1. Articles
How to Search the Invisible Web
Invisible Web Directory
Seek and Ye Shall Find: Locate original documents on the Web
2. Academic Research
BibSonomy
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http://bibsonomy.org/
CiteULike
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CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There's no need to install any special software.
Connotea
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Free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
InfoMine
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INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.
Research Resources
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A Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring research resources and sites on the Internet.
SciFinder
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SciFinder lets you explore an area of research by entering a phrase or sentence in English. It uses relationships among the key words to quickly retrieve results that are relevant to your research interests.
Study Guides and Strategies
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WebLens
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http://bibsonomy.org/
Windows Live Academic
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Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content for article titles, author names, article abstracts, and conference proceedings.
3. EBooks
DailyLit
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Project Gutenberg
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The Online Books Page
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World eBook Library
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TextBook Revolution
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4. Timelines
Timeline Index Yes!
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Links to web sites cross-indexed by People, Events, Periods and Places in a chronological context.
HistoryMole
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A searchable database of historical world events and themed articles from the last two thousand years.
eHistory
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Ohio State University - Department of History Timeline service
5. Quotes
The Quotations Page
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Bartleby Quotations
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Yahoo Quotations
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Quotable Online
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6. Encyclopedias
Wikipedia Yes!
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A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software. (GNU Free Documentation License).
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
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~ $70 per year
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Provides complete text of Encyclopaedia Britannica with search capabilities, related links, and multimedia enhancements. Free trial.
MSN Encarta
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Online home of the Encarta encyclopedia, world atlas, dictionary, thesaurus, multimedia collection, and homework tools.
7. Libraries
Questia Yes!
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~ $20 per month
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Paid subscription service that provides access to a large online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.
Bartleby
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The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
Google Book Search
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Google digitizes many books from library collections. If an Old English edition, translation, or study is out of print or hard to locate, one can search for a "full-view" digitized version in Google Book Search. If Google has digitized the book and designated it as full-view, one can read the entire text of the book.
Stanford HighWire Press
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Free and Charge
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A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer- reviewed content, with 973 journals and 1,423,193 free, full-text articles online.