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ReferenceHow to Cite Electronic ReferencesOn his page we will add more links to educational resources
Acton Agua Dulce Home School Group We are a group of moms in Acton and Agua Dulce California that wanted to get together with other local homeschool moms to discuss curriculum, go on local field trips, plan educational, as well as, fun activities for our kids.
Schools AV College College of the Canyons
Online aid is available for researching and writing reports. It ranges from encyclopedias, fact books, university-level research, dictionaries, and grammar guides. Many resources are free, some charge subscriptions ranging from $9.95 to $20 a month and up. Here are a few. If you find some good ones E-mail them to us and we will add them to the list. All are free unless marked.
Student Rights
The ACLU webpage on student rights showing student have rights including due process.
LibrarySpot is a virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. LibrarySpot was designed to break through the information overload of the Web to bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one convenient, user-friendly spot.
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No longer, with things that are available electronically over the Nets. You don't have to wait until the door of the library swings open to get that book you want for an urgent piece of research; you don't have to wait until a person is available to send them an instant message; you don't have to wait for the evening news on tv....
From A Brief History of the Internet by Michael S. Hart March, 1995 [Etext #250] Copyright 1995
PI it begins with 3.1415926535 and a million digits later it is still going at 346431991
How to Find a Project Gutenberg EBook
Now, Parents of Children with Disabilities, have a great new FREE resource on the World Wide Web that can offer
them important information, support, and entertainment all in one place!
Help is a link for parents of Attention
Deficit Disorder (ADHD) Children
Human Anatomy On-line,
a
place for interactive and educational views of the human body.
Schoolbytes.com Called the "Hip alternative to Cliff Notes" (by some journalist guy. Mark Saldanha and Michael Burgess have launched Schoolbytes.com, a website aimed at high school and college students with one philosophy: make complex stuff easy, entertaining and free. Their most popular section to date is the irreverent plotbytes. They have developed a cult-like following in the student community because they are free and students can understand the language they are presented in
The University of Michigan's Internet Public Library offers the A+ Research & Writing. The guide takes you through the paper-writing process, and offers guides to search tools for finding information online as well as links to other resources. Volunteer librarians also staff the Library’s "Ask a Question" e-mail reference service. To index
National
Archives and Records Administration To index
Antelope Valley Press Los Angeles Times The Signal Other newspapers Visit
for more newspapers
The
New South Polar Times To index
Project
Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks
or eTexts).
The ResourceShelf
Is a daily electronic newsletter of news and other resources of interest to the
online researcher. List
of Lists
For 9.95/Month. Britannica Online is the Internet version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. 3 day free trial.
Microsoft's Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
is an abbreviated version of the popular CD-ROM reference book that contains 16,000
articles and 2,200 pictures.
9.95/Month. Infonautics Corp.'s Electric
Library The four-year-old service offers articles from hundreds of newspapers
and magazines including the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Time, and
Business Week, plus books, maps, pictures and other reference works. 30-day free trial
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Bartleby.com
Named “Best Literary Resource” for 2002
MapQuest is a site that lets you create and print
out maps for any of three million locations worldwide.
The Elements of Style
for help with the basics of writing, consult Strunk and White's the classic
treatise on sentence structure, punctuation, composition and common word mistakes.
Merriam-Webster Online
is the online
edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to look up word spellings.
Roget's Thesaurus for synonyms
and related words.
Roget's Thesaurus
1911
edition
Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations For quotes the famous list of phrases.
Reference Sources on
the Internet This is a listing of thousands of items and just looking through the index is
an education. Here is one thing I found
Olbers' paradox (H. Olbers; 1826)
If the Universe is infinite, uniform, and unchanging then the entire sky at night would be
bright -- about as bright as the Sun. The further you looked out into space, the more
stars there would be, and thus in any direction in which you looked your line-of-sight
would eventually impinge upon a star. The paradox is resolved by the big bang theory,
which puts forth that the Universe is non-uniform, dynamic, and (probably) finite
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Reference librarians are working out the proper format common to cite information obtained on the Internet, for a term-paper bibliography.
One recommendation (using this capitalization and punctuation): Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of Document." Title of Complete Work (if applicable). Document date or date or last revision. Protocol and full address (Web, email, etc.), date of access.
Using this format, this would be: Brink, Charles. "On Line Educational aids." "The Vanguard News". September 16, 1997. Internet www.vanguardnews.com/elink.htm Sept. 20 1997.To index