A Writer’s Online Resources
| SEARCH ENGINES | |
| AltaVista | http://www.altavista.digital.com |
| Dogpile | http://www.dogpile.com |
| Excite | http://www.excite.com |
| HotBot | http://www.hotbot.com |
| Infoseek | http://www.infoseek.com |
| Lycos | http://www.lycos.com |
| Metacrawler | http://www.metacrawler.com |
| Yahoo! | http://www.yahoo.com |
| REFERENCE SITES | |
| WWWebster Dictionary | http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm |
| A Web of On-line Dictionaries | http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction1.html#special |
| OneLook Dictionaries | http://www.onelook.com |
| ARTFL Project: Roget’s Thesaurus Search Form | http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html |
| Atlapedia Online | http://www.atlapedia.com |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica Online | http://www.eb.com |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian | http://www.si.edu/resource/faq |
| WRITING LABS | |
| Online Writery | http://www.missouri.edu/~writery |
| Purdue University Online Writing Lab | http://owl.english.purdue.edu |
| The University of Michigan OWL: Online Writing and Learning | http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ecb/OWL/owl.html |
| ESL SITES | |
| Dave’s ESL Café | http://eslcafe.com |
| Topics: An Online Magazine by and for Learners of English | http://www.rice.edu/projects/topics/Electronic/Magazine.html |
| VIRTUAL LIBRARIES | |
| The Internet Public Library | http://ipl.org |
| Thor+: The Libraries of Purdue University | http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/index.html |
| The WWW Virtual Library | http://vlib.stanford.edu/Overview.html |
| The Library of Congress | http://lcweb.loc.gov |
| The Webliography: Internet Subject Guides | http://www.lib.lsu.edu/weblio.html |
| TEXT ARCHIVES | |
| Electronic Text Center—University of Virginia Library | http://etext.lib.virginia.edu |
| Project Bartleby Archive | http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby |
| Project Gutenberg | http://promo.net/pg |
| GOVERNMENT SITES | |
| U.S. Census Bureau: The Official Statistics | http://www.census.gov |
| Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet | http://thomas.loc.gov |
| U.S. State & Local Gateway | http://www.statelocal.gov |
| U.S. Government Printing Office | http://www.access.gpo.gov |
| United Nations | http://www.un.org |
| NEWS SITES | |
| The New York Times on the Web | http://nytimes.com |
| The Washington Post | http://washingtonpost.com |
| U.S. News Online | http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm |
| nationalgeographic.com | http://www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html |
| CNN Interactive | http://www.cnn.com |
| NEWSGROUPS AND LISTSERVS | |
| Tile.Net | http://www.tile.net |
| Liszt | http://www.liszt.com |
| Deja News | http://www.dejanews.com |
| DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC SITES | |
| Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age (links to sites in a variety of disciplines) | http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc |
| Bedford Links to Resources in Literature | http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks |
| Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research | http://humanitas.ucsb.edu |
| H-net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online | http://h-net2.msu.edu |
| Social Science Information Gateway | http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | http://plato.stanford.edu |
| "Famous Paintings Exhibition,"WebMuseum | http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint |
| Perseus Project | http://www.perseus.tufts.edu |
| Bedford/St. Martin’s Links to History Resources | http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/history/historylinks.html |
| Newsweek International Business Resource Center | http://www.newsweek-int.com |
| Science Online | http://www.sciencemag.org |
| Windows to the Universe | http://www.windows.umich.edu |
| SITES FOR EVALUATING SOURCES | |
| "Checklist for Evaluating Web Sites," Canisius College Library & Internet | http://www.canisius.edu/canhp/canlib/webcrit.htm |
| "Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools,"Olin Kroch Uris Libraries | http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html |
| "Evaluating Internet Information,"Internet Navigator | http://sol.slcc.edu/lr/navigator/discovery/eval.html |