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Each entry in this encyclopedia is written, maintained, and updated by a qualified expert or group of experts in that particular field. Arranged in a simple alphabetical layout, each entry consists of a typical encyclopedic overview of the topic, plus a bibliography of print and Internet resources at the end of the article. The Encyclopedia may also be searched.
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This site is devoted to medieval English literature, the Renaissance period, and the early 17th century and is an excellent starting point for students and other interested researchers.
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Maintained by Ohio State University’s Department of History, eHistory is a portal to history divided by the following broad topics: Ancient, Middle Ages, Civil War, World War II, Vietnam War, Middle East, and World. For each section, there are articles and primary source documents, biographies, maps, timelines, and more.
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Created to be a companion Web site to the video series and telecourse of the same name, A Biography of America provides a text transcript of each of the 26 videos, maps, timelines, and Webliographies that enhance the content of the series. In-depth articles that complement the series’ content are also included.
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World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by college and university faculty around the world who deliver course materials on the Web in any language. The materials can be used by anyone interested in courseware—faculty, developers, and students.
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One of the best features of the Public Broadcasting System’s (PBS) TeacherSource is the collection of over 2,500 lesson plans and activities for classroom teachers.
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The New York Times Learning Network is a free service for teachers, parents, and students in elementary and secondary schools. Updated each weekday, it contains summaries of news stories from the current day’s New York Times.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has posted most of its undergraduate
and graduate course content on this site. It is a free service and includes most subjects. Using the materials on this site does not give you an MIT education, nor does it grant degrees or certificates, but for teachers and students, the information can be very useful.
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Use this site to find lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. You can browse by subject and grade level.
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This is the world’s largest source of education information, containing more than one million abstracts of education journal articles, documents, and other resources.
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Undoubtedly one of the most-cited business tutorials on the World Wide Web, Debbie Flanagan’s Researching Companies Online is the best place to start a business-related research project. All of the links provided in the tutorial are free and open to the public without subscription.
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Sponsored by the American Economic Association, this guide lists more than 2,000 carefully selected resources of interest to academic economics researchers and practicing economists.
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Prepared by the U.S. Commercial Service, this database is for U.S. business people who may want to invest in a country. Also includes links to Country Commercial Guides for each country. Political science and international business students can also benefit from the information found here.
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This is an excellent starting point for the person researching an industry. The author
brings together hyperlinks for industry data, industry home pages, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), and office tools such as package costs and tracking devices, and more.
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This is a useful site for the busy student or researcher who needs company information. You can find a brief overview of a company, including street address, telephone and fax numbers, location map, hyperlink to the company’s home page, top competitors, company type (whether private or public), key people in the company, links to news, and links to industry information. If the company you have looked up is private, you may get very brief financial information with links to business reports that you will have to pay for prepared by Dun & Bradstreet and other firms.
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This site provides U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) financial
statements that are required from all public U.S. companies with less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders. Available free from the SEC, EDGAR is a well-designed and reliable resource, with over 1 million documents in its collection.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a mega-site filled with some of the most useful economic, career, and other workplace-related information available on the Web. For example, you can find the last six months of various U.S. economic data, including the unemployment rate, consumer price index, average hourly earnings, and so forth, with links to historical information on all of these segments. The Employment Projections section develops information about trends in the labor market for ten years into the future. Several publications that are used in career guidance are provided here, including the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Monthly Labor Review.
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Developed by Charlotte & Mecklenburg Public Library in North Carolina, this portal is a great place to start researching economic conditions, marketing and demographics, international business, starting a business, and more.
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This site takes information from several public domain data sources, including the CIA World Factbook and several United Nations publications. It allows you to compare and contrast statistics between countries. Relevant articles from Wikipedia are embedded into the appropriate categories. All entries are cited so that you know from where the data was originally published.
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This site, sponsored by the United Nations, allows you to compare statistical data from different countries. Look here to find economic data such as GDP and unemployment rates, infant mortality rates, health statistics, and more.
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This is the online version of the CIA’s World Factbook. Published annually, it contains information on all the countries of the world, including a map of the country, brief historical information, geography overview, population data, description of current government, economic statistics, communications and transportation infrastructure, military conflicts, and more.
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This service lists over 11,000 libraries in the academic, government, national, public, and institutional sectors.
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LIBCAT gives lots of information on searching library catalogs. Look here to find a list of special collections and the names of libraries in which they are located.
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Babelfish allows you to translate a section of text or a Web page from English to several languages, and from some other languages to English. The translations aren’t always perfect, but the site can be a time saver.
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This site provides tips and guidelines for educators and students on the topic of identifying and avoiding plagiarism. It also has information about citing resources properly, with links to Web sites that explain how to use the major citation styles.
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This site covers virtually everything you’ll ever want to know about grammar and writing, including writer’s block and how to overcome it, paragraph development, parts of speech, tense consistency, and much, much more.
Karen does a great job in this chapter building “The Researcher’s Toolkit.” Here are some of the links from Chapter 5.
