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I hope you find it useful!
Please let me know of any sites that are more useful than these, and also if you find any of these sites to be of little value.
Workplace: the journal for academic labor. Excellent,
hard-hitting articles by members of the Grad Student Caucus of the MLA; by other graduate
student scholar-activists; and by academic activists.
Libweb at Sunsite (U. California at Berkeley).
As of the summer of '01 this is the most useful single list of web-accessible libraries I have found. It's especially useful for foreign (non-US) libraries.
Yale University's List of
Internet-Accessible Libraries
Another listing of Internet-accessible libraries. It includes TELNET or other addresses, log-ins, passwords, etc. See the section "Gateways to other online Library Catalogs" at the bottom of the page as well. Replaces the older Yale Gopher list.
Another excellent list is
Hytelnet:
On-Line Library List, by Peter Scott, courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan,
Canada. Scott has a similar page here.
You can also check out:
"Yahoo" is one of the biggest and most useful Internet "search engines."
You might find the following URL more useful, though:
University Libraries
from Yahoo
Here is an address for the whole world's libraries, by country -- over 1000 listed!
NEW JERSEY LIBRARIES ON-LINE. There are not too many of these, but there are more all the time. Here is where they will always be listed -- on the "State of New Jersey" Page:
Catalog of New Jersey Libraries
Finally, don't forget our own new and growing
Sprague Library Home Page.
Steve Shapiro, MSU's Librarian/Webmaster, is always on the lookout for new and useful
links. Check it out!
There are a LOT of reference sites on the World Wide Web! I have selected some that I have found useful. Let me know what you think of them! Tell me about any good sites YOU find, and I'll add them.
The NPC Online Search Division
AskERIC
Information Tools.
Educational research resource, based on the justly famous ERIC database.
Directory
of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Lists
Yahoo
-- Reference Section.
Yahoo is one of the largest and best WWW "search engines". Its Reference
Section is a good place to begin searching if you are wondering what reference sources are
available on the WWW.
IPL: The Internet Public Library
On-Line Literary Research Tools
From Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania -- a top-notch site!
The WWW Virtual
Library: Subject Catalog
Literature 'WEBliography' from LSU
Research Tools from Indiana U.
CARRIE: The Electronic Library from U.
Kansas
Professor
Gigabyte's Gateways To Infinity.
The best single site I know of for a general, one-stop source of many WWW sites of
interest, and one of the very easiest to use! From Prof. Donald Warman, at Dana College
(Blair, Nebraska).
THE FOLLOWING SITES are for encyclopedias and specific reference books.
Kevin's Internet Encyclopedia -
Bookshelf
From the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Free Internet Encyclopedia (U.
Hawaii)
Books On-line, Listed by
Author
A list of all books known to the lister (Carnegie Mellon University).
'Where the Wild Things Are': A
Librarian's List of Reference Materials
This "librarian's list" and the one that follows have some good references for general research.
Anne Prestamo's Home Page of Reference and
Librarian Materials
Bartlett's Book of Familiar
Quotations
Finally, a source that attempts to list all European sites in one
place. Browse around for lots of interesting stuff! 
The Doorway into Europe: The European
Directory
Here are some sites for other Internet materials.
Net-Happenings
Archive - Search
'Net-Happenings' is a mailing list that attempts to list all new WWW pages and sites as they come on-line and are announced to the public. It comes in digest mode, as often as several times a day, and as such is almost impossible to follow personally. Her e you can search its entire archives by key word. An alternative to the "Search Engines" covered in a later section.
Directory
of Scholarly and Professional E-conferences This Australian site attempts to list all
"scholarly" or academic (as opposed to hobby, sport, etc.) mailing lists. Check
here to find a mailing list in the field you want to do research in.
You should also look for a mailing list in your area of interest at the following important site:
Tilenet offers several different search tools including this one for mailing lists (here called "listserves", after the most common software used for them). Its general search address allows searches for Usenet newsgroups and ftp sites as we ll, so I put it here, too:
"I doubt, therefore I think!"
The media, religious groups, right-wingers, "New Agers", and many other sources make rather fantastic claims. "Cold water boils faster than hot water!" "The Virgin Mary is appearing in Queens, New York (or wherever...)!" "Noah's Ark was found in Turkey!" "Balancing the national budget is good for you!"
Or -- a particular favorite of mine -- "Stalin killed more people than Hitler!" [An excellent article refuting this and much more nonsense, with appropriate evidence, is here. The whole series, with index and jumps here, is worth studying.]
Where can you go to "get the dope", i.e. refute, this kind of nonsense? Well, for statements of the last two kinds -- political and historical -- see my "Politics and Social Issues" page here! But for the other kind, DO NOT FAI L to check out at least one of these sources:
The
Skeptical Inquirer, WWW page for the journal of the same name. These people
publish research articles debunking bunk of all kinds, especially religious and
"magical."
Also, click here to try the British equivalent, The Skeptic Magazine.
A lot of these people are socially and politically pretty conservative, but they often publish pretty good stuff from a mechanical materialist perspective. Check it out!
ALPHA Manual (VMS Operating System)
Thanks to Dr David Stuehler, an abbreviated version of the ALPHA Manual which I wrote for student and faculty use at MSU is now available on-line. Click here to go directly to this manual, which you can either use on-line or download.
IF you want to get the latest version of my entire ALPHA manual, click here to mail me a note, and I'll send it to your email address as a Mail message, which you can download or 'extract/noheader' to make into a file at the $ (VMS) prompt. Instructions are on the very first page of the manual.
Click here to go to the ALPHA NEWS READER INSTRUCTIONS, which you may use on-line or download.
The complete manual (over 200 pages) is available in "zipped" format (you must use PKUNZIP or another such program) HERE.
This whole page is extraordinarily useful. Thank you, Doctor Stuehler!
The MLA Handbook is copywrighted and sold for profit, and therefore is not on the WWW!
The MLA itself has some Frequently Asked Questions about MLA style.
Many other sites contain summarized versions of the information in it, which you can use for most research and term-paper purposes. Here are some of these s ites
I would be VERY interested to learn from you which of these sites are most useful, and which are not; which are the most complete, and which are too scanty or simply duplicate the fuller ones. Please let me know, to make these links m ore useful for students!
MLA Documentation from Capitol Community
College, Hartford CN.
A Documentation Primer, from
Dan Kline's "Chaucer Pedagogy Page". Very well done, and not just for medieval
research, but for any research!
Be sure to check out Diane
Hacker's
Research and
Documentation OnLine, a first-rate resource!
Also, note the Sample Paper in MLA Style, linked on
this page, or
go directly to
it here.
How To Cite Online Sources,
from Blogging.com.
Using Modern Language
Association (MLA) Format, from the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue
University.
MLA Style Documentation, from Indiana University.
MLA Style Citations, from Bridgewater
State College, MA - choose either 'Bibliographic Entries' or 'Documenting sources from
the Worldwide Web'.
The following site has formats for citing Internet and other "electronic" sources (also covered in the most recent, 5th, edition of the MLA Handbook):
How To Cite Online Sources,
at Blogging.com
Using the Internet to Help You Do Your Term Paper.
This is the text of a manual I've written for both student and faculty use. It comes in two files. You can get the first one here, and then the second one here.
The Internet can be a tremendous tool for doing research! This manual is based on my own experiece. Please let me know your criticisms and suggestions!
-- tools for key-word searches of the World Wide Web
Search Engines on the Montclair
State University CHSS Home Page
... but HERE BELOW is the best of the search engines, in my own view: "ALTAVISTA" by Digital Equipment Corporation. It uses two of the powerful "Alpha" mainframes which MSU itself uses. Try it!
Or, if you prefer, you may enter your search in the form below, and it will be sent automatically to ALTAVISTA. Try it!
You may also search with the MetaCrawler engine:
Searching Listserv Archives.
This excellent page gives you detailed instructions for searching the archives of many
Mailing Lists -- 'pound for pound' the most useful research tools on the Internet. A truly
invaluable resource!
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