Library Favorites

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Information Handouts

• Web Searching Hints
• Aids for Searching Electronic Databases
• Research process model
  

Also don't forget the Catalog for Books and Databases for Journal Articles

Recommended Internet Sites

Search Engines/Directories
If you have not found what you needed on the WWW by Subject pages then try searching by keyword in the following recommended search engines.

Learn which search engine you should use.

Google - All the Web - Yahoo - Lycos - AltaVista - HotBot - Open Directory

More Search Tools:
For a descriptive listing go to Search Engines and Directories A to Z

Two of the best sites for search engine information and reviews:
Search Engine Watch & Search Engine Showdown

Subject Guides/Directories

• BUBL LINK / 5:15 Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas" These were gathered for the Libraries of Networked Knowledge in Great Britain. The database covers over 11,000 resources and provides (usually) 5 to 15 per subject sub-area.
• Conservative Reference Desk
• Digital Librarian: A librarian's choice of the best on the Web. Maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, NY. It has a minimum of 96 broad subject categories in its directory.
• Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections is a directory of "20,000+ academically valuable" sites arranged by broad subject areas and maintained by the University Libraries of California.
• Internet Public Library Online Reference Center provides links to academic quality web sites chosen by librarians.
  LibrarySpot claims to have "the best libraries, newspapers, encyclopedias, maps and more in one Spot."
• Librarians' Index to the Internet is a useful, large index for resources on the Internet selected by librarians in the University of California system.
• Library of Congress’ Virtual Reference Shelf
• RefDesk.com claims to be "the single best source for facts on the Net"
• Voice of the Shuttle - Directory for Humanities Research
• WWW Virtual Library is a collection of academic subject related web sites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject.

More sites:
Academic Info, Beaucoup!, Connect Online/Top 20, iTools, Iverson's Ready Reference Web Sites, Religious Resources.org, W3 Search Engines, WebRef.org, WebRing Directory

Citing Resources

• Citing Music Resources
• KU Writing Guide
• Online: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
• Ready Reference: Online Style Manuals
• Writers Handbook: Documentation Styles

Evaluating Websites

• Evaluating Information Found on the Web - John Hopkins University
• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask, UC Berkeley
• Student's Guide to Research with the WWW

Internet Tutorials

• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial, UC Berkeley Library
• Internet Tutorials - University of Albany Libraries
• Web Search Strategies

Information Literacy

• Bibliographic Instruction Resources on the Internet
  Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy
• Information Literacy Group - Information Sources
• TILT: Information Literacy Tutorial

Online Books, Journals & Collections

• American Memory Historical Collections, Library of Congress
• Athena
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
• BookFinder (Rare/Used/Out-of-Print Books)
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Early Christian Writings
• Internet Sacred Text Archive
• Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
• National Archives Documents that cover American history and culture.
• Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania Highly recommended as a hub for listing other sites and can be searched by author, title, etc.
• Page by Page Books
• Project Gutenberg
• Questia - "World's Largest Online Library" (Subscription service)
• Schoyen Collection: Checklist of 600 Manuscripts Spanning 5000 Years
• Selected Full-text Religious Journals
• UNESCO Archives Portal

Copyright

• Copyright and Fair Use, Stanford University
• Copyright Crash Course, University of Texas
• Copyright Management Center, Indiana University
• History of Copyright: A Chronology

Associations

• American Library Association
• Association of Christian Librarians
• Center for the History of Information Technology
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
• Council on Library and Information Resources
• U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
  

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