496 Research Workshop

Smart Searching: Internet Research and Resources

Jumping off points - Brainstorming

Google - www.google.com (Quotation marks are important, use Advanced Search)

Google Books – www.books.google.com (Searchable Texts)

Amazon – www.amazon.com (Searchable Texts)

Wikipedia - www.wikipedia.org (A good source for brainstorming and links)

Encyclopedia Britannica - www.britannica.com (Basic facts and links)

Oxford English Dictionary – link from www.libraries.wvu.edu

Online Etymology Dictionary - www.etymonline.com (Word genealogies)

Mountainlynx – mountainlynx.lib.wvu.edu (Our digital library catalog)

Academic Journal Databases

EBSCOHost - link from www.libraries.wvu.edu (Complete database of all academic journals and other sources – may or may not have link to full text)

JStor - link from www.libraries.wvu.edu (Full text academic journal articles)

Project Muse - link from www.libraries.wvu.edu (Full text academic journal articles)

Lexis-Nexis - link from www.libraries.wvu.edu (Periodical database)

Others - www.libraries.wvu.edu

Portals/Other

Voice of the Shuttle – vos.ucsb.edu (Humanities Portal)

eserver.org: Accessible Writing – www.eserver.org (Humanities Portal)

Humbul Humanities Hub - www.humbul.ac.uk (Humanities Portal)

Electronic Poetry Center – www.epc.buffalo.edu (E-Poetry Archive)

Ubuweb - http://www.ubu.com/ (Sound/Concrete Poetry Archive)

List of Online Journals

Project Muse – muse.jhu.edu/journals/index.html

JSTOR - www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html

All Databases - www.libraries.wvu.edu/databases

Citing Online Sources

www.owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#Electronic

Bibliography Composer

www.easybib.com

https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/login.asp?WNCLang=false - link from www.libraries.wvu.edu

Evaluating Web Resources - link from www.libraries.wvu.edu

www.libraries.wvu.edu/web/help/more.htm

libweb.sonoma.edu/research/subject/eval.html

www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical

lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html