Researching Tips
MLA 9 Handbook The go-to resource for writers of research papers and anyone citing sources is now available online through institutional subscriptions.
Purdue OWL The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. This is the go-to site for citation information.
Mybib.com is a FREE, no advertising sidebar, pop-up absent, MLA, and APA citation generator for students. The best part: you don’t need an account to reap the benefits of all the things you pay for with other programs. For example: APA is free, in-text citations are free, annotations are free, among other things. It also easily formats the document and then allows for downloading or copying and pasting into a Word document, as well as other programs like Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.
Other sites for citing
Google "Tricks"
Conduct an advanced search...thank me later.
Type the name of a person, place, or thing in "quotes."
Try Google News which has an option to search over 100 years’ worth of archived news from newspapers around the world.
Limit your search results. Use the minus sign (-) operator to exclude results from a certain site (e.g., Salvador Dali -Wikipedia) You can also do this to refine the results when a word can mean more than one thing (e.g., jaguar –car).
Expand your search results. If there's only a range of dates, measurements, or other numbers you want to find, use two periods (..) to set that range, e.g., "manufacturing 1990..2001" or "travel ..$1000" (leave out one of the numbers to set a minimum or maximum).
Click on "Search Tools" (at the top of the results) and you can filter by when the article was posted and if you want the search to come back with results that are verbatim.
Use Google Scholar which provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites.
English/Literature
Libros Para Leer Gratis en PDF
How to Search Effectively in a Database
History
Teaching History Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC) is designed to help K-12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.
American Memory Project American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
The Opper Project, named after Ohioan Frederick Burr Opper, the first great American-born cartoonist, is an on-line collection of historic editorial cartoons. Covering more than one hundred years of American history, the cartoons are organized topically with associated lesson plans.
Science/ Mathematics
Scitable Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms.
