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You will want to evaluate the source of an Internet site and think critically about your Web resources to make sure the site is accurate, authoritative, objective, and current. The sites below are considered reliable.

Please note: Most of the links listed below are to external sites. When you click on an external link, it will open a new page in your browser window.

Art

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Biography

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Business and Economics

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Career/Job Information

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Children's Pages for Homework

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Citation Guides

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College Information

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Computers/Internet

  • Internet Public Library 2 - ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII)
  • Living Internet.com - Sections include how it was invented, how it works, and how to use it.

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Consumer Information

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Education

Teaching & Technology

Chancellor's Office Information

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English

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Environment

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ESL

  • ESL Cafe - Chat, discussion forums, and various ESL links.

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Genealogy

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Geography

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Government

Election Information

  • California Secretary of State - Information on your polling place, live election returns, voter information guide for candidates and propositions.
  • On the Issues - A non-partisan site that offers detailed information on the presidential candidates and their stances on relevant issues.

Who are your California and U.S. legislators?

General Political Information

International Politics

Federal and Other States

California State Government

Los Angeles and Long Beach Government

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Health

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History

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Images

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Law

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Libraries

Professional Organizations

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Literature

  • Academy of American Poets
  • American Verse Project - "an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920".
  • Literary Criticism - Online links to literary criticism from the Internet Public Library.
  • Literary Index - Indexes the Gale literature series, including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and all of the literary criticism series. Users will then need to consult the print volumes in the Reference Collection for the full text of the articles.
  • Literary Resources Online - "links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature..."
  • Shakespeare & the Internet - " annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet."
  • Voice of the Shuttle, English Literature - Portals to academic departments includes literary areas.
  • Bookrags - Free book notes and essays, similar to Cliff Notes.
  • Sparknotes - Free study guides to literature and other subject areas, similar to Cliff Notes.

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Local Information

California In General

Long Beach Area

Los Angeles Area

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Maps

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Mathematics

  • MathWorld - "the Web's most extensive mathematics resource."
  • Professor Freedman's Math Help - "provides information about basic math, algebra, study skills, math anxiety and learning styles and specifically addresses the needs of the community college adult learner."

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Multicultural Issues

African-American

Major Websites on Slavery

Documentation Projects

Educational

Asian American

  • AsianWeek - "national English-language newsweekly for the...Asian Pacific American community."
  • AsiaSource - Provides the latest news, calendar of events, maps, statistics and a searchable database on Asian/Pacific countries.

Latin American/Hispanic

Native Americans

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Newspapers

Multiple Newspapers Online

Individual Newspapers Online

News Sources

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Nursing

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Philosophy

  • EpistemeLinks - "Includes over 19,000 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet"

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Psychology

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Reference Works

Dictionaries, Thesauri and Encyclopedias

Directories and Indexes

Fact Finders

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Science

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Search Engines

  • Ask.com - Uses the Teoma search engine to answer your natural language questions.
  • Exalead - Numerous advanced search options
  • Gigablast
  • Google - A great place to start your Web searches.
  • MSN Search
  • Yahoo! Search - Web and multimedia searches, popular directories, indexes, and features.

Other Search Tools

  • Yippy - MetaSearch engine uses other search engines to begin your search, then arranges the results into hierarchical, logical, conceptual document clusters.
  • Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages - Keep these selection criteria in mind when surfing the net for research information.
  • Infomine - Virtual library of university-level resources built by librarians.
  • ixquick - MetaSearch engine ranks top results, no advertisements.
  • ipl2 - Recommended starting point for finding reliable internet sites for your research.
  • Voice of the Shuttle - UCSB portal to academic web pages in many areas.
  • WebCrawler - MetaSearch sends query to several search engines at the same time: Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, Ask.com , About, LookSmart, FindWhat.

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Social Sciences

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Sounds

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Speeches

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Statistics

California Statistics

Federal-United States Statistics

International Statistics

  • Country Studies - Sponsored by the Library of Congress.
  • Gender Statistics - Sponsored by the World Bank, it offers gender statistics by country and by region.
  • Global Statistics
  • Globastat - Based on the CIA's World Factbook data, rankings of countries are listed for over 140 categories.
  • InfoNation - Created by the United Nations - users may customize statistical tables.

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Theatre/Film

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Writing Tips for Research Papers: the ABC's

Avoiding Plagiarism

Basics of a Research Paper

Citing Sources

Dictionaries, Thesauri, Reference Sites

Last Updated November 18th, 2010 by Dena Laney

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