| Online Research |
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 Lists of Educational Links |
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| Study WEB | Searchable collection of over 15,000 research quality URLs |
| Scholars' Guide To WWW | Great resource for scholarly research on the Internet |
| Education World | Searchable education-oriented database of the web |
| UniGuide Academic Guide to the Internet | Categorical education-oriented list in the following areas:
Biological Sciences
Computer & Info Sciences
Education & Human Sciences
Engineering
Geosciences
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
Liberal Arts
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| The Education Index | an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage |
| Education World | Searchable education-oriented database of the web |
| H-Net | Information and resources for all those interested in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| College & Research Libraries News | Resources in many educational areas, updated monthly |
| Voice of the Shuttle | Web Page for Humanities Research - extensive resource listing |
| Jerome and Deborah's BIG PAGE of Education Links | Collection of sites for students & educators |
| Research & Reference Tools | Resources in Computers, Education, Exhibits & Museums, Government, Law, Electronic & Publications, etc. |
| Scout Toolkit | 6 sources of educational research and educational links |
| AskERIC | Educational database |
| ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education | Educational database |
| LIBWEB | Links to over 1100 libraries in over 45 countries |
| Digital Librarian | A librarian's choice of the best of the web |
| The Internet Sleuth | Where you�ll find over 1,500 searchable databases! |
| Argus Clearinghouse | Guides to information resources on the Internet |
| Homework Heaven | Hand-picked research links, plus search engines and meta-indexes - for 1st grade to college and beyond |
| MY VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK | Designed to be a one-stop reference guide to the Internet |
| Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web | Scholarly journals on many subjects |
| NewJour | List of new journals and newsletters available on the Internet. |
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Study Web | Search their collection of over 97,000 Research Quality URLs |
| The Scout Report | Internet resources & network tools geared toward researchers &
educators (thanks to Bob Howell) |
| B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper | Over 240 research links |
| Inter-Links |
Navigator, resource locator, and tutorial from NOVA |
| On-line & Distance Learning Courses |
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| The Internet University | More than 1,130 pages of information about Online Education |
| Yahoo's Links to Distance Learning Sites and Sources | Many links to online education |
| Cornell University's Office of Distance Learning
| Cornell's DL program and links to other university resources |
| Learner Online | The Annenberg/CPB Project's Web Site for Learners and Educators |
| Epistemology and Learning | "MIT Media Lab explores how new technologies can enable new
ways of thinking, learning, and designing" |
| World Lecture Hall | Links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials |
| Blue Web'n Library | A library of Internet-based instruction |
| WWW Virtual Library: Distance Education | Links to Distance Learning resources |
| Using Technology in Teaching | Many links to internet/distance learning/computers educational resources |
| Internet Learning Resources | List of internet-based resources useful in teaching internet
skills |
| Ed Surf | Links to distance learning opportunities |
| Virtual University | On-line courses via e-mail |
| Portland Community College Online | On-line courses |
| Statistics Teaching Module | An online course in statistics |
| New Tools for Teaching | Tips and experiences developing on-line courses |
| National Teachers Enhancement Network | Offers graduate-credit science and mathematics courses to teachers nationally |
| Learning.Net | "A suite of knowledge communities offering continuing education, recurrent training and professional development" ... Membership is free, requires registration." |
| Distance Education: A Primer | "An overview of the many programs from around the world. Also looks at student, faculty and instructional issues. Includes a bibliography and resource list." |
| Best Practices in Web-Based Instruction | "Examples and analyses of Web-based courses. Brief descriptions of the courses include assignments, testing, and communications. Specifically for special needs students and instructors." |
| Streaming Video in Distance Learning | Examples of using streaming audio/video in education |
| Children's & other Curious Persons' Links |
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| Yak's Corner | "America's coolest news magazine for kids." Lots of puzzles, games and craft diversions. |
| Learning Kingdom | Extensive and useful site for children, parents and educators |
| Bonus.com | "The SuperSite for Kids, where you
can visit hundreds of fun activities within a protected environment" |
| Homework for Kids | "Want straight A's? Learn to use your computer and the Internet for
Top Performance." |
| Homework Heaven | Hand-picked research links, plus search engines and meta-indexes - for 1st grade to college and beyond |
| Researchpaper.com | "The Web's largest collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects. " |
| B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper | Over 240 research links |
| Exploratorium | Interactive science exhibits & experiments, more |
| Exploration Network | The fun side of
science |
| Science Experiments You Can Do
| For the budding amateur scientist
| The Thinking Fountain
| A children's oriented science discovery site from the Science Museum of Minnesota, which is itself a wonderful site, with many more treasures to explore.
| The Wonder Room | Early
Childhood Sites on the Net sponsored by Gryphon House |
| Yahooligans | Web Guide for
kids |
| ACEKids | Web links, games for
kids |
| The Story of a Little Rock on Mars | "The story - complete with an animated graphic and other illustrations - recounts
the July 4 landing of the Mars Pathfinder probe from the point of view of 'Little
Rock'" |
| Anne's House of Dreams | Book by Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of "Anne of Green Gables" in HTML |
| Seussville | Dedicated to the Dr.
Seuss books |
| E-Zines |
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| Ezines have moved to News, Weather Maps, so this page could be reduced. |
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| Book Reviews |
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| The IBIC Virtual Review of Books (IVRB) | Large list of specialized and general subject book reviews on the Internet |
| Yahoo's List of Book Review Sites | Another large list of specialized and general subject book reviews on the Internet |
| New York Review of Books | Locus for three sites for book reviews: NYBooks, New York Review of Books, Granta |
| Book Publishers/Sellers |
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| 1Bookstreet.com | Discounted books - up to 80% - often has better deals than Amazon |
| A1Books | Discounted books - 22% to 32% |
 Acses | "Acses checks out prices, availability, shipping times and shipping costs of your book at over 20 online stores!" | | Amazon.com | Search 2.5 million-title catalog of books! |
| BarnesandNoble.com | 20 - 30% discounts |
| Best Book Buys | "Helps you search for books and compare prices at 20 online bookstores" |
| Book Lovers |
Excellent selection of useful places on the net on writers and poets, on libraries, publishers and booksellers. |
| Bookpool | Discount computer-related
books! |
| Books-A-Million | New deep-discount online bookstore! |
| Book Stacks
Unlimited | 400,000+ titles plus reams of resources for book buyers |
| BookWire | Categorized listings for booksellers, publishers, libraries, and hundreds of other book-related resources |
| Borders Online | Discounted books from Borders |
| Kingbooks.com | Over 1.0 Million Titles - Big Discounts on Books & Shipping |
| Macmillan Information Superlibrary | See especially, their Personal Bookshelf, for over 100 online computer/Internet related books - requires (free) registration with an email address. |
| Powell's Books | Powell's out-stocks even B&N, with more than 1 million volumes on its shelves. It also offers great prices - 35 percent cheaper than Amazon overall, as Powell's deals mostly in discounted used books |
| PriceSCAN Books | "Your Unbiased Guide to the Lowest Prices on Books" |
| Random House Online | Books from Randon House | | Readme.Doc | Discount computer books! |
| On-line Encyclopedias |
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| Encarta Online |
Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia available online - limited edition - but still useful to find out a bit about Life, the Universe and Everything |
| Encyclopedia.com | "More than 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition." |
| infoplease.com | "Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records" |
| Research-It! | Everything from anagrams & language translations to UPS rates |
| ENCYBERPEDIA | Virtually every encyclopedia that's on the Web |
| Virtual Community of Tomorrow | "Every word of the 29 volume Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia, multimedia features, searchable, animations, photos. |
| Encyclopedias on the Net | List of 40 Web encyclopedias |
| The North Carolina Encyclopedia | An overview of the people, the government, the history, and the resources of North Carolina. |
| E-texts/Literature |
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| The English Server | Over 18,000 electronic texts covering a wide range of humanities disciplines |
| Project Gutenberg | 700+ texts including everything from "Aesop's Fables" to "Zen and the Art of the Internet" |
| Electronic Text Center | Thousands of on-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with many related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.) " |
| WebCATS | Library catalogs on the WWW | | The WWW Virtual Library | A distributed catalog of many academic subjects, from Aboriginal Studies to Zoos |
| Library of Congress | Several in-depth archive & research resources |
| Internet Public Library | The first public library of and for the Internet community |
| Master Works of Western Civilization | Index of many great classic on-line
texts |
| Concordances of Great Books | Fully Searchable Word Indexes |
| The Bartleby Library | Classic literary works, sponsored by Columbia University |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William
Shakespeare with other resources |
| The Works of the Bard | Another Complete Works of William Shakespeare with a search engine for quotes |
| WebSonar | Search for documents using phrases in law, education, technology libraries |
| American Library Association's Booklist | Reviews of the latest books and electronic media |
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Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet | Many online texts |
| The Online Books Page | Index
to more than 2400 English works in various formats |
| Internet Classics Archive | Searchable
collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English
translation) |
| Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts | Folk and fairy tales from around the world in English translation - see also Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas |
| Tales of Wonder | Folk and fairy tales from around the world in English translation |
| The Electric Library | The Web's most comprehensive one-stop digital archive |
| Humanities Text Initiative | Online texts & images |
| Bibliomania | Over 60 classic novels, all in HTML, biographical and academic works, ancient texts, classics, such as "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable", The Complete Works of Lewis Caroll |
| The National Academy Press | Offers full text of approximately 1,000 books on science and technology |
| Literary Resources on the Net | Searchable collection of many different literary resources |
| Books in Chains | Links on Literature, Authors, Drama, Film, Writing, and Literary Magazines |
| Luminarium | Beautifully executed site devoted to Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century English Literature |
| James A. Michener
| Official site of the author's life and work |
| Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
| Catalogs works of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, including author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, yearly fiction indexes, and forthcoming books.
| National Archives Exhibit Hall | Interest exhibits on World War II, famous documents,
more |
| CIA Publications and Handbooks | Encyclopedia of countries, map, histories, their major exports, many more. |
| Gulliver's Travels | Beautifully rendered electronic version of this classic |
| The Devil's Dictionary | AMBROSE BIERCE's classic and pleasantly cynical definitions |
| Jane Austen info page | See especially the hypertext version Pride and Prejudice |
| Charles Dickens Page | A fun and educational tour of the world of Dickens |
| The Dickens Information Page | Lists academic
resources, E-texts, publications, and contains resources such as a Dickens chronology and several graphics |
| Great Expectations | An interactive study guide |
| Discovering Dickens! | "Students have a choice of five 'Cases.' Each requires visits to one or more Internet sites that specialize in specific knowledge about Charles Dickens. Students then transform the information into a project such as a timeline, diary, storyboard, or poster." |
| Charles Dickens - Gad's Hill Place
| About the life and works of Charles Dickens |
| Victorian Web | Information regarding religion, philosophy, science, art, economics, and of course, literature of the Victorian
period. |
| Victoria Research Web | A
source for research guides, journals in Victorian studies, on-line discussion groups in various areas of interest, teaching syllabi, etc. |
| The Gutenberg Elegies | An essay on "The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age" - shades of Marshall McLuhan! |
| Writing |
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| Guides to Using Microsoft Word® | Guides to using Microsoft Word® for writing essays, letters, descriptions, instructions, outlines, bibliographies, resumes, including using fonts, using headings, and creating tables. |
| MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources | Internet source citation
Style Sheet (Endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing) |
| How to Cite Internet and World Wide Web Documents | How to document Internet sources based upon the Modern Language Association Style Manual |
| World Wide Words | Articles on aspects of English |
| A Guide to Grammar and Writing | "Contains several digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 140 computer-graded quizzes, recommendations on writing -- from basic problems in subject-verb agreement and uses of articles to exercises in parallel structures help with argumentative essays." |
| A Guide for Writing Research Papers | Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation |
| The elements of style, by William Strunk, Jr | Classic writing/usage guide, now on-line, part of the Bartleby Library |
| THE KING'S ENGLISH
By H. W. FOWLER | Another classic writing/usage guide, now on-line, part of the Bartleby Library |
| A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices | Searchable glossary containing definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices and other literary terms |
| Paradigm Online Writing Assistant | "This online guide offers help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing your writing--of special interest to English composition students and instructors." Available for download as a single self-extracting exe file. |
| Rensselaer Writing Center Handouts | 18 useful pages on prose style and mechanics |
| Virginia Tech Online Writing Lab (OWL) | Enormous amounts of downloadable texts on areas from punctuation to writer's block |
| Writer's Block | "Your connection to professional writers and editors, and the secrets that have made them among the best�in their field." |
| Writer's Write | "The Internet Writing Journal -- Award-winning Monthly Online Magazinefeaturing Author Interviews, Writing Articles and Book Reviews." |
| The Economist Style Guide | "A very handy compendium of writing tips, highly recommended. But caveat Yankee -- The Economist is a British magazine, and the rules apply to British English. So be careful with rules about punctuation, spelling, and Americanisms." |
| Dictionaries |
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| OneLook Dictionaries | 2,331,274 words in 503 dictionaries, indexed |
| WordNet 1.5 Search | "An online dictionary that you can explore in different directions, finding words that mean the same, are more general, more specific - as well as getting a brief description." |
| Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary/Thesaurus | "Search more than 160,000 entries in the Web's most up-to-date dictionary." Lots of other neat word-related stuff, like Word Game of the Day (requires Java) and Word for the Wise |
| Rivendel Multi-language Dictionaries | Many language to language dictionaries | | Wordbot Home Page | A robot assistant for looking up translations, definitions, synonyms, antonyms, references, etc. of words appearing in a document. |
| Biotech Life Science Dictionary | "Definitions to over 5700 life science terms in fields ranging from biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cellular biology and genetics - with more such fields to be added this year." |
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ROGET'S Thesaurus | Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus version 1.02 |
| travlang's Translating Dictionaries | Large collection of Translating Dictionaries |
| Online Translation Dictionaries | Translation Search Engines |
| Research-It! | Everything from anagrams & language translations to UPS rates |
| Quotations |
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| Bartlett's Familiar Quotations | Looking for a quote apropos anything? |
| The Quotations Page | Who said, "With just enough of learning to misquote."? |
 WebSonar | Search for documents using phrases in law, education, technology libraries |
| The Book of Cliches | "Phrases
to say in times of trouble ... repeat until believe ..." |
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Clich� Finder |
"Have you been searching for just the right clich� to use? Are you searching for a clich� using the word "cat" or "day" but haven't been able to come up with one?" Search over 3,300 clich�s. |
| Conner's Unfamiliar Quotations | "Quips, Quotations, and Quodlibets not found in Bartlett's" |
| Yahoo's Quotations Sites | Large collection of quotations site links |
| The Works of the Bard | Another
Complete Works of William Shakespeare with a search engine for
quotes |
| Teaching |
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| The Chronicle of Higher Education | The flagship publication on academic issues |
| Engines for Education | An excellent hypertext book on teaching |
| Emphasis on Teaching | Some useful articles on teaching |
| TRAINING Magazine | Some useful articles on training in the workplace |
| Classroom Visions | Audio/video ideas for overcoming negative models in education |
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