Recommended Websites

Many faculty members restrict the use of web sources in research assignments. However there are some sites that duplicate reliable paper sources, such as the Statistical Abstracts of the United States, or are of particularly high quality and have been evaluated for accuracy, currency, etc. 

The following is a selection of websites containing information that can enhance your research.  Use them accordingly.

All Subjects

• Digital Librarian
• Internet Public Library
• The Library Spot
• BUBL (Academic Subjects on the Web)

Plagiarism

• Turnitin.com

Reference

• 20th Century American Leaders Database (Harvard Business School)
• CIA World Fact Book
• Credo Reference
• Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
• Eurostat (European Union)
• Famous Quotes & Authors
• GPO: Browse Government Publications (Government Publication Office) 
• Merriam Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus
• Obituaries
• RefDesk.com
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Statistics
• Telephone Directories, Whitepages
• Telephone Directories, Yellowpages
• U.S. Census
• U.S. Department of State
• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Senate
• United Nations
• World Bank
• Yahoo! Reference

Primary Sources (first-person accounts, e.g., diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles)

• 19th Century British Pamphlets (Joint Information Systems Committee/JISC)
• American Memory - Library of Congress
• Avalon Project: Law, History, Diplomacy
• Cartoon Image Database (Ohio State University)
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
• Chronology of U. S. Historical Documents (University of Oklahoma)
• The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
• Discovering American Women's History Online (Middle Tennessee State University)
• European History
• European History Primary Sources (European University Institute)
• Footnote (digital images)
• Founders Early Access (University of Virginia Press)
• Google News (scanned newspaper archives) 
• Government Comics Collection (digial images, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 
• Hathi Trust Digital Library
• In the First Person
• Internet Archive (Archive.org) 
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Fordham University) 
• Making of America: Making of American Books
• Media History Digital Library (works best in Internet Explorer) 
• Primary Sources on the Web (Education Place)
• Repositories of Primary Sources
• United States History and World History
• Using Primary Sources on the Web - Reference and User Services Association
• The Valley of the Shadow
• Voice of the Shuttle 

Periodical Information / Tables of Contents

• Ulrichsweb.com
• Periodical Information

Translation Tools

• Babelfish.com
• Google Language Tools
• Prompt Online