Websites for Student Research

Here is a list of reliable places students can go for research in my class or other classes.  If you find other great resources, please share with me, so I can share them on my blog for others.

1.  Sam Yagan, M. K. (2011, 01 23). Spark Notes. Retrieved from http://www.sparknotes.com/ 

SparkNotes - This is a website in which students can look up information from any subject area and easily cite it. There is also celebrity news, quizzes, videos, test prep for the ACT, SAT and AP tests, and there is also a Spark Notes app to download for their Android or iPhone.

2.  ipl2: Information you can trust. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.ipl.org/ 

The Internet Public Library - This is a wonderful website for students who really do not know where to begin. This website is supported by many universities, and is considered to "contain information you can trust." Searches can be done by subject, newspapers or magazines, special collections, and by age, such as kids or teens. Students can even ask a librarian for assistance.
 

3.  Refdesk. (2012, febuary 06). Retrieved from http://www.refdesk.com/ 

RefDesk - This is a place for reference, facts and news, and seems to be family friendly. There is so much on this website, I am not sure where to begin. There is news, facts, thoughts, pictures, words and sites of the day, there are conversion tools, links to dictionaries, encyclopedias and newspapers, and too many other reference tools to mention here. This is a place to check out for yourself.


4.  Oxford University Press (2005). Encylopedia.com. Retrieved from http://www.encyclopedia.com/

Encyclopedia.com - This is a place which has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.


5.  van Leeuwen, S. H. (2012). Bartleby.com: Great books online. Retrieved from http://www.bartleby.com/ 

Bartleby.com - This in an internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information, free of charge. This website is mostly English based research, and not much other curriculum.

6.  http://scholar.google.com/

Google Scholar - This is a great site for research.  It does mostly bring up abstracts, but they are complete and concise so research can easily be done.