RESEARCH AIDS
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Anonymizer
- This site is great if you want to gather market intelligence without
letting anyone know who you are. It acts as a buffer between you and the
sites you visit. The sites you visit have no idea who you are, because
your site address is replaced with that of the Anonymizer.
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Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations - Search
for quotations by subject or author
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Critical
Evaluation Skills - Here they
show you what to look for when you are visiting sites. Sites are classified
into 5 categories: Advocacy, Business/Marketing, Informational, News, and
Personal. In the Business/Marketing category, they offer an evaluation
checklist which defines Authority, Accuracy, Objectivity, Currency, and
Coverage.
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Elements of
Style - A book presenting rules
for good English composition
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words
and Phrases - Search for synonyms and
expressions for a word
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SEARCH ENGINE WATCH
- Excellent information about all areas related to search engines,
from design to use; how to operate them to how to get the best results.
Webmasters may be interested in paying $20 for a higher level of detail
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Web Concordances
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A concordance is "a comprehensive index of words used in a text
or a body of texts". This concordance happens to be used for literary studies.
Because the index shows all usage of a word, the concordance may be used
to compare contexts to gain insight into meanings. It may be useful for
legal and philosophical studies, as well as finding cross-references in
intranet and in research activities.
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Web
Dictionary - Contains:
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, English Language Dictionaries, Foreign Language Dictionaries, Subject Dictionaries, Collections of Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Translators Encyclopedias, English Language Dictionaries Cambridge
-- when a search engine doesn't work, try this. Also, visit Yale's
online reference resource.
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Ready
Reference - "Ready Reference" is what researchers use to find facts, such as dates or biographical information.
Here you will find: Biographical Resources Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Biographical Resources ...
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Web Resources for Librarians
- Here you will find the same resources you have come to expect
from a good reference library. Also, visit this sites: Linking
Libraries Internet Services and Librarian's
Index to the Internet.
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Mass
Media and Popular Culture - Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Web Portals (Yale Research Guide for Mass).
It contains Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Web Portals.
Wwwebster Dictionary-
An
excellent dictionary
The Vital Records
webpage - The Vital Records webpage contains information about where
to
obtain vital records (such as birth, death & marriage certificates
and divorce decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United
States. Also available are the guidelines for information on how
to order vital records. A great site with excellent information that is easy to use. (back to
reference desk)
Uncle
Sam.com - This website contains fantastic collections of the best statistical
sources - the essential sites for accessing more data than you ever imagined
available or perhaps necessary. Uncle Sam's greatest asset is its compilation
of statistical information on literally every subject under the sun, from
jobs and careers to health and nutrition to census demographics.
FedStats - as of this time it
has improved their search engine to search 28 federal agency databases.
Beside being improved it seems to be much fast.
Search Sites - If you want to
search something about people, business, or even advanced search, etc.
OneLook Dictionaries
- If you need a quick definition of a word don't go paging through
that heavy dictionary in your bookcase. Just type in your word at this
page, and in seconds you'll get a definition for it. This site indexes
472 online dictionaries (to see which ones, click on "Browse Dictionary
List")
Acronym
Finder - has 124,500 acronyms/abbreviations & their meanings. This is a
searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations on all
subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the
military. A search on NET returned 14 acronyms alone.
Research
Websites
| ABRODY's
index of news and stock market research sites |
| Apple Computer, Astronomy, Biology,
Cartography, Education, Employment, Geography, GIS, Internet Search,
Internet Index, Jobs, Macintosh, Meteorology, Multimedia, News, Travel,
Unix, Weather, ... |
| The
Wall Street Exchange |
| A financial web directory and portal to
various stock market related news and research sites. Includes a free
community to exchange comments and views on subject matter from the
sites listed. |
| The
National Research Council |
| The National Research Council was
organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the
broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of
further knowledge and... |
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