Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
Check out this interactive literacy tutorial from the UT System Digital
Library and TILT the information scales in your favor!
Xrefer
A reference search engine that searches and cross-references encyclopedias,
dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and a number of subject-specific titles.
Find Articles
One of the very first free databases that indexes full-text articles from
magazines and journals. A surprising amount of stuff here!
Online Newspapers
A free directory of the web sites of all known newspapers with online editions.
A great resource to find that obscure, hometown newspaper.
Internet Public Library
Access to a very useful collection of over 9000 reference sources and thousands
of magazines and journals. This is info the way it was meant to be -- helpful,
organized, and completely free!
Bartleby.com
This is the premiere source for free online literature, verse, and reference
books. Includes the Columbia Encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, Bartlett's
Quotations and hundreds of additional texts in reference, verse, literature,
and nonfiction.
Search Engines
These are computer generated lists of internet sites floating in cyberspace.
It's not the best way to find information . . . but they are helpful for some
things.
AlphaSearch
Access hundreds of meta-sites organized by discipline, subject, or idea.
INFOMINE
More than 14,000 "academically useful" links selected and maintained
by university librarians.
Librarian's Index
to the Internet
Extensive guide to internet resources by subject, some scholarly, some general
interest.
Citing Online Info
Citing electronic information
can be a difficult task. Click here to see concise examples specifically adapted
for our library databases.
Note: You will need Adobe Acrobat
viewer to see this document.
Evaluating Web Sites
Information on the web can be tricky to discern. Here's help from an expert
at New Mexico State Univ. Library!
YAHOO!
While Yahoo! is not scholarly, it is big (over 750,000 web sites
listed) and well known.