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Research and Documentation Resources
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Using the Library
A primer on finding and utilizing the resources available in your college library.

Using the Internet
A primer on using the Internet to effectively do research.

Web Source Evaluation Tutor
Provides students with the experience of evaluating data and examining relevant information in the research process.

Avoiding Plagiarism
In using secondary research, writers need to remember that knowledge develops socially in a give-and-take process akin to conversation. In this kind of social situation, it is a matter of both personal integrity and academic honesty to acknowledge others, especially when you use their words or ideas. Writers who fail to acknowledge their sources correctly -- either intentionally or inadvertently -- commit plagiarism. And writers who unfairly use copyrighted material found on the World Wide Web or in print are legally liable for their acts.

Sample Bibliography Formats (86.0K)
Provide you with sample APA and MLA citations for all major types of source material, including books, newspapers, magazines, Internet documents and more.

Bibliomaker
Formats the works-cited page of a presentation in either MLA, APA, Chicago, CSE, or COS documentation style.

MLA style sample
Establishing a State Lottery in North Carolina by Lily Jeng is a sample of a paper in the MLA Style.

Additional Links on Research

Voice of the Shuttle General Humanities Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp

World Wide Web Virtual Library
http://www.vlib.org

Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com

Galaxy
http://www.galaxy.com

AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com

Go.com
http://infoseek.go.com

All the Web
http://www.alltheweb.com

HotBot
http://hotbot.lycos.com

Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com

Metacrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com

Northern Light
http://www.northernlight.com

Ask Jeeves
http://www.ask.com

Google
http://www.google.com

Primary or Secondary? Popular or Scholarly?
http://www.ussa.edu/library/primary.asp

Evaluating Sources of Information
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/EvalSrcW/internet.html

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov

ArchivesUSA
http://archives.chadwyck.com

U.S National Archives and Record Administration (NARA)
http://www.nara.gov

Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/specialcollections/otherrepositories.html

Virtual Library Museums Page
http://www.icom.org/vlmp/

Women Writers Project
http://www.wwp.brown.edu

Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html

Copyright and Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu

Copyright
http://www.benedict.com

U.S. Copyright Office
http://www.loc.gov/copyright

MLA
http://www.mla.org








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