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GENERAL REFERENCE
Reference desks - portals
Start from GOOGLE and WIKIPEDIA.
How to search the internet
About - The Human Internet
Voice of the Shuttle by Alan Liu USA
Internet Public Library: Reference Centre
Humbul Intute Annotated links GB
Librarians review and update sites on languages, humanities, etc. Reliable.
ClayGate Clayton's Gateway to the Internet Dewey Decimal Classification DDC
LII Librarian's internet index: Annotated links, USA
CHILDREN and HOMEWORK REFERENCE
ThinkQuest Library of Entries
Thousands of sites built by children, for children.
encyclopaediae
MANY LANGUAGES
Wikipedia the free encyclopaedia Click at the language of your choice.
ENGLISH
Encarta Reference
By Microsoft. Encyclopaedia, Dictionaries, Atlas.
Bartleby.com
Encyclo, Dictionaries, English books and poetry Online.
Columbia Encyclopedia by Bartleby.com
1911 edition Britannica
Perseus Encyclopedia A to Z for classicists
NOT free:
Britannica.com (but concise.britannica.com is accessible).
FRENCH
Encyclopédie Hachette Multimédia en ligne

RESEARCH TOOLS
How to search the internet
Libraries
Maktaba aliskandariyya EGYPT - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in arabic french english
How can we not start from here?!
Library of Congress, USA - Basic Search
British Library, GB
British Library Public Catalogue, GB
Bibliothèque Nationale de FRANCE
Gallica
Dossiers pédagogiques Excellent presentations of various subjects.
COPAC GB-Ireland 20 University Research Library Catalogue
Oxford University Libraries GB
Cambridge University Library Catalogues GB
Berkeley University Libraries California, USA
Indiana University Digital Library Program USA - IUCAT catalogue @www.iucat.iu.edu
Princeton University Library USA
Virginia University Electronic Text Center -12 languages USA
Bibelec French E-Library for students FRANCE in french
LibraryLinks
Yahoo Academic Libraries
Yahoo Reference Libraries
librarianship
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Dewey @www.oclc.org
LIBRARY of CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
LC @www.loc.gov

Universities
alma mater studiorum: University of Bologna, Italy founded c.1088
@wikipedia
Oxford GB founded c.1231
Cambridge GB founded c.1231
la Sorbonne FRANCE (13 Paris Universities) founded c.1253
Heidelberg University GERMANY founded c. 1385
Harvard USA founded c.1636
Yale USA founded c.1701
Princeton USA founded c. 1756
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) USA founded c.1865
Berkeley USA founded c.1866
LINKS ON UNIVERSITIES
Universities by Countries yahoo.com

Dissertations-Databases
dissertation.com International Thesis & Dissertation On-line Digital Library & Bookstore
UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations - ProQuest Digital Dissertations
GB IR Index To Theses of Great Britain and Ireland
ETD - Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the humanities
DDM - Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online

Journals
Genamics JournalSeek - Information on Thousands of Academic Journals by Category

Styles and Bibliographies: how to write your thesis
Styles:
MLA = Modern Language Association of America (1985).
APA = American Psychological Association
MHRA = Modern Humanities Research Association.
and many more...
For my bibliography I use MLA, but have added a latin-alphabet index (see my bibliography) because I work with many different alphabets, and sorting was a nightmare.
Bibliography tutorial MHRA MLA APA @port.igrs.sas.ac.uk
MLA and APA pdf Sources @www.valenciacc.edu
MLA Formatting and Style Guide @owl.english.purdue.edu
MLA faq @www.mla.org
Research guides for students, MLA examples @www.aresearchguide.com
Tutorial @owl.english.purdue.edu
Category:Style_guides @wikipedia

Publishers of textbooks
Books have companion sites, with outlines, flashcards, and sometimes nice material. Keep an eye on the domain of your choice.
Houghton and Mifflin college.hmco.com, www.hmco.com.
Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org
McGraw Hill catalogs.mhhe.com
Prentice Hall www.prenticehall.com
W.W. Norton www.wwnorton.com and www.wwnorton.com/studyspace
Wadsworth Thomson www.thomsonedu.com (Schirmer music)

News
BBC News Online, GB
The Spire Project News and News Databases by David and Fiona Novak
Thousands of newspapers on the Net

LANGUAGES
Languages links
Learn languages links
MultiDictionary links
Linguisitcs and phonetics links
Scripts and alphabets links
Arabic language links
Chinese language links
English language links
French language links
Russian language links
Spanish language links
Classical languages links (sanskrit, greek, latin)
COUNTRIES
Places, maps links
History
History links
Historical sources links
Periods of history
Ancient history links
Mythology links
Middle ages amd new times

links checked in Aug 2007