Smart Searching: Internet Research and Resources
A workshop on smart searching on the internet, for students preparing to write undergraduate theses and papers
Jumping off points – brainstorming
Google, www.google.com
Google books, books.google.com
Amazon, www.amazon.com
Wikipedia, www.wikipedia.org
Encyclopedia Britannica, www.britannica.com
Oxford English Dictionary, www.oed.com
Online Etymology Dictionary, www.etymonline.com
Mountainlynx, http://mountainlynx.lib.wvu.edu
Academic Journal Databases (All linked from WVU Libraries page)
EBSCOHost, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/find/#articles
JSTOR, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/find/#articles
Project Muse, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/find/#articles
Lexis-Nexis, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/find/#articles
Others, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/find/#articles
Portals/Other
Voice of the Shuttle, http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Accessible Writing, http://eserver.org/
Intute, arts and humanities, http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
Electronic Poetry Center, http://epc.buffalo.edu/
Ubuweb, http://www.ubu.com/
List of Online Journals
Project Muse, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/index.html
JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/
All Databases at WVU Libraries, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/databases
Citing Online Sources
Purdue’s OWL, http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/#Electronic
Bibliography Composers
Easy Bib, http://www.easybib.com/
Ref Works, https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/login.asp?WNCLang=false
Evaluating Web Resources
WVU Libraries, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/web/help/more.htm
Sonoma, http://libweb.sonoma.edu/research/subject/eval.html
UCLA, http://www2.library.ucla.edu/
New Mexico State University, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
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