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Websites from: Research Strategies: Finding your Way through the Information Fog, 3rd edition. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com, 2008. 

Below are all the web links in the print edition of Research Strategies.  Links in square brackets indicate a former URL which has now changed.

Go directly to: Preface, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Appendix One, Appendix Two, Appendix Three
 

Copyright Page:

http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/updates.htm - Print version of Research Strategies updates page

 

Preface    [Back]

http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/badke.htm - xviii, William Badke bio.

 

Chapter One - Welcome to the Information Fog    [Back]

http://www.archive.org/index.php - 7, Internet Archive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects - 9, Wikipedia list of digital library projects

http://www.openj-gate.com/ - 11, Open JGate

http://www.doaj.org/ - 11, Directory of Open-Access Journals

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/ - 11, University of Michigan Documents Center (Government docs directory)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8ZadKgdC0, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY5hBd8_Q-E, 12, YouTube Prometeus videos.
 


 Chapter Two - Taking Charge     [Back]

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/galileo.html), 16, Trial of Galileo Galilei

http://www.acts.twu.ca/LBR/ResearchModel/ResearchModel.swf, 20, Tutorial on the research process

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) - 23, Wikipedia

http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf - 23, Britannica's response to Nature article

http://www.acts.twu.ca/LBR/ResearchModel/ResearchModel.swf, 31, Tutorial on the research process
 


Chapter Three - Database Searching with Keywords and Hierarchies     [Back]

http://clusty.com/ - 45, Clusty (clustering search engine)

http://www.quintura.com/  - 46, Quintura (clustering search engine)

http://www.grokker.com/ - 46, Grokker (clustering search engine)

http://www.epnet.com - 47, EBSCO Databases

Clusty (http://clusty.com/), Quintura (http://www.quintura.com/ ) and Grokker’s “Map View” (http://www.grokker.com/), 49
 


Chapter Four - Metadata and the Power of Controlled Vocabularies     [Back]

http://www.flickr.com/ - 58, Flickr

http://del.icio.us/ - 58, del.icio.us

http://authorities.loc.gov/ - 63, Library of Congress Subject Headings online
 


Chapter Five - Library Catalogs and Journal Databases     [Back]

http://books.google.com/ - 75, Google Book Project

http://a9.com/-/home.jsp - 75, amazon A9 Open Search

[http://publisher.live.com/] - 75, Windows Live Book Publisher Search [defunct]

http://www.opencontentalliance.org/ - 75, Open Content Alliance

http://www.ulib.org/ - 75,Universal Digital Library

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ - 75, OnlineBooks Page

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ - 75, Oxford Text Archive

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page - 76, Project Gutenberg

http://www.openj-gate.com/ - 79, Open JGate

http://www.doaj.org/ - 79, Directory of Open-Access Journals

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez - 89, PubMed

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ - 95, IngentaConnect

http://www.findarticles.com/ - 95, FindArticles at BNET

http://magportal.com/ - 95, MagPortal
 


Chapter Six - Internet Research     [Back]

http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html - 98, Learn the Net

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html - 98, Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial

http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/updates.htm - 98, Print version of Research Strategies updates page

http://www.eric.ed.gov - 98, ERIC (typo in paper textbook URL)

http://del.icio.us/ - 99, del.icio.us

http://scholar.google.com - 101, Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/librarylinks.html - 102, Google Scholar library links page

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html - 102, Google Scholar help

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ - 103, CiteSeer

http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ - 103, Scirius

[http://academic.live.com] - 104, Windows Live Academic [defunct]

http://www.getcited.org/ - 104, 105, getCITED

http://www.google.com/ - 107, Google

"Google also offers separate search functions for books (Google Book—http://books.google.com), scholarly material (Google Scholar—http://scholar.google.com ), blogs (Google Blog Search—http://blogsearch.google.com), things to buy (Google Product Search—
http://www.google.com/prdhp?tab=wf&ie=UTF-8), and so on." - 109

http://search.yahoo.com/ - 109, Yahoo

http://twingine.com/  - 109, Twingine

http://www.googleguy.de/google-yahoo/  - 109, Google - Yahoo Comparison

http://www.live.com/ - 110, Windows Live Search

http://www.ask.com/ - 110, Ask.com

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum5/4474.htm - 111, WebmasterWorld.com, The Semantic Search Engine

http://www.google.com/dirhp - 111, Google Directory

http://www.psywww.com/ - 112, Psych Web

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/ - 112, History on the Web

http://biology-online.org/ - 112, Biology Online—Information in the Life Sciences

http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/guide_headings.aspx 112, Wabash Center Internet Guide to Religion

http://infomine.ucr.edu/ - 112, Infomine: Scholarly Internet Academic Collections

http://www.merlot.org/ - 112, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)

 http://www.academicinfo.net/ - 112, Academic Info

http://lii.org/ - 112, Librarians’ Index to the Internet

http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm - 112, direct search

http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/answer_sheet.htm - 115, Website for William Badke, Beyond the Answer Sheet: Academic Success
                                                             for International Students.

http://www.acts.twu.ca - 115, Associated Canadian Theological Schools website

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/ - 116, Internet Detective

http://www.ipl.org/ - 116, The Internet Public Library

http://www.refdesk.com/ - 116, Refdesk

http://www.biography.com/ - 117, biography.com

http://www.libdex.com/ - 117, Libdex (Searchable library catalogs. Click on the“Country” link).

http://catalog.loc.gov/  - 117, Library of Congress searchable catalog

http://www.worldcat.org/ - 117, WorldCat

http://www.switchboard.com/ - 117, Switchboard (addresses & phone numbers—US plus Yellow Pages)

http://www.canada411.ca/ - 117, Canada 411 (Canadian phone numbers & addresses)

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/ - 118, Internet Detective
 


Chapter Seven - Other Resources and Case Studies in Research      [Back]

 http://www.library.utoronto.ca/jewishhistory/ - 122, Academic Guide to Jewish History

http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/ - 122, Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907–1921, searchable by keyword and thesaurus)

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com - 122, The Canadian Encyclopedia

http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/ - 122, Encyclopedia Smithsonian

http://plato.stanford.edu/ - 122, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/  - 122, TechEncyclopedia (definitions of terms in technology and computing)

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ - 122, WolframMathWorld (a mathematics encyclopedia)

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/ec - 124, FDLP Electronic Collection (U.S. Government information)

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/stategov.html - 124, Library of Congress, State Government Information

http://www.canada.gc.ca/main_e.html - 124, Government of Canada Official Website

http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/law20.40.00/ - 124, Internet Public Library: Other National Governments

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html - 124, About the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)

http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Depo/table-e.html - 124, Government of Canada: Depository Libraries

http://training.proquest.com/trc/training/en/pqdd.pdf - 125, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (tutorial)

http://www.worldcat.org/ - 125, WorldCat

http://www.zotero.org/ - 126, Zotero

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ - 126, Firefox

http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/borgialucrezia/Borgia_Lucrezia.htm - 133, About.com: European History: Lucrezia Borgia

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/ec - 134, FDLP Electronic Collection (U.S. Government information)

http://www.canada.gc.ca/ - 134, Government of Canada

http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/law20.40.00/ - 135, Internet Public Library: Other National Governments

 

Chapter Eight - Learning How to Read for Research     [Back]

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Evaluation.html - 143, University of California, Berkeley: Critical Evaluation of Resources

http://www.acts.twu.ca/LBR/plagiarism.ppt - 152, William Badke: Plagiarism, eh? (PowerPoint Presentation)

http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/ - 153, Rutgers University Libraries : Now Showing (plagiarism)

http://www.csub.edu/ssric-trd/howto/plagiarism.htm - 153, Earl Babie: How to Avoid Plagiarism

http://www.hamilton.edu/writing/style/plagiarism/plagiarism.html - 153, Hamilton College: Avoiding Plagiarism
 


Chapter Nine - Organizing your Resources to Write your Paper      [Back]

(none)
 


Chapter Ten - Tips on Research Writing       [Back]

(none)
 


Appendix One       [Back]

http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/freecalc/ - 192, Assignment Calculator

http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/electronicdocs.htm - 201, William Badke: “Electronic Documents are Different”

http://www.eazypaper.com/index.cfm - 204, EazyPaper

http://www.styleease.com/ - 204, StyleEase

http://www.worldcat.org/ - 205, WorldCat

There are a couple of good citation generators online: Citation Machine

(http://www.citationmachine.net/) and KnightCite (http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/)

Crib Sheets (205):

APA:

http://www.wooster.edu/psychology/apa-crib.html

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html

http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/apa01.html
 

MLA:

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/mlastyle.htm
 

Turabian:

http://www.bridgew.edu/Library/turabian.cfm

http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/sites/guides/turabiangd.php

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html

        http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html - Not in print ed.  Official guide from the publishers of Turabian
 

Several Formats plus Sample Essays in Each Format:

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/  (Note: “Humanities” = MLA, “Social Sciences” = APA, “History” = Turabian, “Sciences” = CSE)
 

Electronic Items:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docelectric.html
 


Appendix Two     [Back]

http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/resACRL.htm - 207, Research Strategies and the ACRL Standards

 

Appendix Three        [Back]

http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/comparison.htm - 209, Research Strategies, 2nd and 3rd editions, comparative table

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Last updated: August 18, 2008