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A Research Guide for Students
The goal of this site is to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings.
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Landmark Citation Machine This interactive web tool will assist you in citing print and electronic resources. Just fill in the needed information and click "Create Citation" button.
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KnightCite Citation Service KnightCite is an online citation generator service provided by the Hekman Library of Calvin College which simplifies the compilation of an accurate bibliography in the appropriate style.
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Citation Style Examples The following three sites are terrific tools to help you cite your resources. The first two provide examples in the MLA style; the third gives examples in Chicago, Turbian, MLA and other styles. MLA Citation Style from Northwest Univeristy; The Writing Center from University of Wisconsin at Madison; and Assembling a List of Works Cited from Duke University.
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Grammar and Style Guides Too many grammar corrections needed on your paper? Take a look here!
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Internet Site Evaluation If you are citing a web page, you might want to look here first in order to evaluate purpose, author, content, coverage, currency and recognition. (Ohio State University Libraries)
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Internet Public Library A good general place to start a search.
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IPL Almanacs An excellent collection of online almanacs for looking up quick facts.
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IPL Language Dictionaries French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Czech, Greek, Russian, Japanese (also a Morse Code Translator!).
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IPL Newspapers Around the World Good place to begin your search for a foreign newspaper written in English.
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World Fact Book Looking for information on a specific country covering geography, government, economy, military, people or transportation? This is an excellant place to begin.
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World Newspapers, Magazines and News Sites in English sorted by Country and Region.
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Library Of Congress One of the richest sources on the internet.
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Hathi Trust Digital Library is an ever growing digital repository for research libraries, which brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions to archive and share their digitized collections. This is a tremendous site for accessing scholarly materials through its catalog.
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Great Books Online Misplaced your Pride and Prejudice, The Scarlett Letter, The Odyssey, etc.? Read it online here, listed by chapters.
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The Online Books Page from UPenn listing over 25,000 books available on the web.
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Art Image Collections on the Internet This image collection is created by the folks at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and would be helpful for those art history projects.
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Bible.com Search the Old Testament and the New Testament - King James Version, Revised Standard Version or Darby.
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New York Times: Science Page This section of the New York Times is reviewed every week in Dr. McLean's Biology class.
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
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National Archives: Current Exhibits Check out the latest exhibits at our nation's archives!
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