Smart Searching: Internet Research and Resources
A workshop on smart searching on the internet, for students preparing to write undergraduate theses and papers. Our goal is to provide strategies for research, making the best use of the internet. We want you to leave the workshop with concrete directions for your project.
Brainstorming / Jumping off points or Hunting and Gathering
Google, www.google.com
Google Books, www.books.google.com
Google Scholar, www.scholar.google.com
Amazon, www.amazon.com
Wikipedia, www.wikipedia.org
Encyclopedia Britannica, www.britannica.com
Oxford English Dictionary, www.oed.com
Online Etymology Dictionary, www.etymonline.com
Facebook and other social media, www.facebook.com
Mountainlynx, http://mountainlynx.lib.wvu.edu
Bookmarking with Zotero, www.zotero.org and Diigo, www.diigo.com
Academic Journal Databases (all linked from WVU Libraries page)
EBSCOHost, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/find/#articles
JSTOR, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/find/#articles
Project Muse, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/find/#articles
Lexis-Nexis, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/find/#articles
Others, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/find/#articles
Portals/Other (curated and topical resources)
Voice of the Shuttle, http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Accessible Writing, http://eserver.org/
Intute, arts and humanities, http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
Electronic Poetry Center, http://epc.buffalo.edu/
Ubuweb, http://www.ubu.com/
Some Useful Online Journals and Databases
Project Muse, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/index.html
JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/
All Databases at WVU Libraries, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/databases
Citing Online Sources (key point: remember the date of access)
Purdue’s OWL, http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/#Electronic
Bibliography Composers
Easy Bib, http://www.easybib.com/
Ref Works, https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/login.asp?WNCLang=false
Evaluating Web Resources
WVU Libraries, http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/web/help/more.htm
Sonoma, http://libweb.sonoma.edu/research/subject/eval.html
UCLA, http://www2.library.ucla.edu/
New Mexico State University, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
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