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Guide To References Resources Online For Academic Libraries: Final Project
Guide To References Resources Online For Academic Libraries: Final Project
Final Project
Guide to references resources online for Academic
Libraries
The resource is in partial fulfillment of the requirements For ILS 504 Reference Materials and
Services, Fall 2009
Submitted by
Hanem A Ibrahim
Instructor
Dr. Elsie Okobi
Southern Connecticut State University
Fall 2009
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Final Project
This is my final project for ILS- 504, I tried to select web reference resources for
college student, and faculty of staff. Through these pages you’ll find links to
different types of resources that Help finding the answer for their Reference
questions.
• Library Catalogs
• Bibliographies
• E- Books
• Indexes
• Guides/ review and selection guides for reference tools
• Scholarly journals
• Image databases
• Subject resources in Humanities, Literature, Sciences
• Ready Reference Tools
library catalogs
1- OCLC Online Union Catalog
You can find any book and the libraries that hold a copy of it …
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/.
2- The library of Congress catalog
One of the best online catalogs…
http://catalog.loc.gov/
3- The British Library
This is the home page of the British Library website. Use this site to
search our catalogues, order items for research, view exhibitions and
link to ...
www.bl.uk/
4- Libdex :
You can discover the directory of library across the world as well
as an extensive
collection of books. Read, write & reviews your favorite
readings…
http://www.libdex.com/
5- Full-Text Online Library
Over 76,000 full-text books & 2 million articles. Research online
Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and
journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.
www.Questia.com/Online_Library
Bibliographies
1- OEN Bibliography in a searchable database.
Contains the annual bibliographies from 1973 to 2005—over
20,000 entries—with new items added annually.
http://www.oenewsletter.org/OENDB/index.php
2- c18 Bibliographies On-Line
A typical bibliography gives standard scholarly editions, bibliographies,
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reference works,
biographies, and the major works of criticism. They'd range from nearly
comprehensive for the most
minor authors to extremely selective for the big names.
Annotations would be brief, just enough to give newcomers a sense of what's
important
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/C18/biblio/
3- Online Articles & Bibliographies about Sociology of Religion
This collection of links offers access to many sociology of religion articles
available on the web. Articles are listed by author's last name
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/sociology/articles.html
E-books
Here are some websites for E-Books
1- Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
This is the place where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your
PC and many portable devices, including the Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone or other
device
2- eBooks3
http://www.ebooks3.com/
Here you can read whole books free of charge. Click on the book of your choice to
start reading.
Internet Directories
These are some of the directories to reference works online
1- The Internet Public Library
It is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment founded
at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel
University's College of Information Science & Technology
http://www.ipl.org/
3- Google directory
http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/
The web organized by topic into categories…
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/dir/
Subject directories include human-selected Internet resources and are
arranged and classified in hierarchical topics. Most search engines and
portals have a subject directory component or partner. Use these for with
broad topics and to find a few good sites on a particular topic
3- JSTOR
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It is a not- for- profit service that helps scholars and students discover, use,
and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over
1000 academic journals and other scholarly content.http://www.jstor.org/?
cookieSet=1
Images
Here are some important websites that offer Images
1- Google Images
Google Images. The most comprehensive image search on the web. Images
www.google.com /
2- Storing Images in Database
A database help Storing images in Databases
www.codewalkers.com/
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/pla/plaevents/plaatalaannual/index.cfm
library- organization
http://www.ala.org/
Library operations
Descriptive cataloging
http://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/policy/
http://www.db.dk/bh/lifeboat_ko/CONCEPTS/descriptive_cataloging.htm
Dewey Decimal Classification
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/
General libraries
http://plgdb.freac.fsu.edu/imf.jsp?site=geolib
British library
http://www.bl.uk/
http://www.public-finance.com/index2.htm
Law
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/
Public administration
Public Administration – journal:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118519412/home?
CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Educations
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
Commerce, communications, transport
Communications; Telecommunication
http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/CGS020.htm
Customs, etiquette, folklore
American Folklore http://www.americanfolklore.net/
http://www.britannica.com/
Longman English Dictionary Online
http://www.britannica.com/
Free Online Dictionaries
http://www.freedict.com/
Online English to Spanish to English Dictionary
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/spa.html
OneLook Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com/
Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
alphaDictionary * Free English Online Dictionary * Word Games
http://www.alphadictionary.com/index.shtml
Top of Form
My web site includes all the tabs for these reference tools, and a copy of this final
project document @ http://ibrahimh1.tripod.com