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Useful Tools for Research, Writing, Cyberwork, and
Political Action
Table of Contents
On-line
Library Catalogues and Resources
Downloadable Arabic Library for Research
Guides for Writing Papers
On-line Dictionaries, Thesauri,
and Translators
Searching the Web
General News, News of the
Muslim World, and Cyber-Virus Hoax News
Cyberwork: MOOs, HTML Tools, UNIX, etc.
Political Action: Find and Email Your
Representatives in the US Congress
UGA Administrative Pages
MELVYL, the
catalogue of the University of California, is an excellent on-line
catalogue--especially for Arabic and Persian books.
The Library of
Congress On-line Catalogue
The Library of Congress
Experimental On-line Catalogue I have noticed that this catalogue is
on-line at certain times when the other LOC catalogues are off-line.
University
of Georgia Library Catalogue
GALILEO
gives you access to
WorldCat/OCLC
for searching a comprehensive
database of most major libaries in the US (and a few abroad) and access to
numerous databases particularly useful for researching
current journals. You can only access this if you are a UGA student,
staff, or faculty member. If you need to access GALILEO from
off-campus, you need the password. You can get that if you know your
barcode, which is on the back of your student or faculty id. Once you
have your barcode, click
here and fill
in your barcode and your last name. That will allow you to access
your library account
page, where you will see the GALILEO password.
After you know the
password, you
type it in the GALILEO password box (which you will see after you click
on Galileo).
Then, after hitting your
"enter" key, click on the databases category labeled "Reference Sources."
Then, click on "World Cat."
UGA
Interlibrary Loan Request Form This is only for UGA faculty, staff,
and students. You will be prompted for a user name and password. For
the user name, type "ill" (without the quotation marks and in
lowercase letters). The password is the same as the password for
off-campus access to GALILEO. See above for instructions for obtaining
your GALILEO password.
Middle East
and Islamic World Film Archive This is the largest archive--at any
American university-- of films dealing with the Middle East and the Muslim
world.
National
Gallery of Art This image databank allows
various forms of searching.
Orazio Centaro's Art Images
on the Web - Painters" A vast image bank of Western art.
Power Reporting: Resources for Journalists is an
extensive online directory of useful links enabling one to find facts on a vast array of
subjects.
Al-Muhaddith
Islamic Library for research in Arabic primary sources in Islamic
Studies.
The Writing
Guide, developed by Prof. Carolyn Schriber of Rhodes College, is an excellent
guide to the basics of constructing an expository essay.
Elements of Style
by William Strunk is the classic writer's guide. This edition has been
formatted for the Web. Students should pay particular attention to the
sections on the paragraph and
topic
sentence.
How
to Write a Paper, by P. Halsall, discusses the basic steps involved in
writing a paper.
MLA Based Guide for Writing
Research Papers This will answer most questions concerning the proper
formatting of a research paper. The basis steps in writing such papers are
also discussed.
How to Write a
Thesis Statement
Paragraphs
and Topic Sentences
Encouraging
Critical Thought Through On-Line
Discussions
Bartletts Quotations and the New
Bartleby Library for researching familiar quotations from English
literature.
Hypertext
Webster (English)
Merriam Webster
(English)
Research-It!
(English, computing, rhyming and pronounciation dictionaries; three
thesauri;
language translator)
Roget's
Thesaurus (English, Indexed)
Roget's
Thesaurus (English, Searchable)
French
Dictionary Fr-Eng/Eng-Fr.
German and Spanish
Dictionaries Ger-Eng/Eng-Ger and Sp-Eng/Eng-Sp.
Alta
Vista Translation Service This automatically translates English into
French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portugese and vice-versa. You can
give it text or simply a url.
MetaCrawler Another
Mega-search engine.
Google Search, a
mega-search engine.
Profusion
is a meta-search engine that can search nine engines altogether.
Yahoo
Alta Vista
WebCrawler
HotBot
Lycos
Go.com
Excite
LookSmart
UGA web page The main page for UGA.
UGA Website Search
Engines
Finding
Information on the Internet: A Tutorial Developed at the University of
California, this site gives many useful tips on how to skillfully search
the Web.
MENA.net Reports in English
on all the breaking news from the Middle East and North Africa.
EurasiaNews, including the
Turko-Iranian world, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Russia, and the Balkans.
New York Times:
World News
Search PBS Online
CNN
World News One can configure this so as to receive news of the
particular areas or countries of the world in which one is interested.
Anti-Virus Hoax
Warnings page by the computer security company "F-Secure" lists
and describes the "virus hoax" warnings that your well-intentioned friends
will often send you. You can also find information on actual viruses
through this page. (The University of Georgia is a client of theirs and
distributes their virus protection software free to all students,
employees, and faculty at UGA.)
F-Secure Virus
Information Contains an immense list of
all known viruses, their description, and their cures.
Symantec/Norton
Encyclopedia of All Known Viruses
Virus
Encyclopedia
GIF Cruncher A
great tool for diminishing the size of your gifs so that they will load
faster.
Virtual
Park Hall The Park Hall MOO through Surf and Turf, a web-based
interface with a MOO.
GOTI
Schedule
The Georgia On-line Teaching Initiative 1998 Summer Seminar.
An Online
Tutorial for WebCT Developers WebCT is the environment used for
online classes at UGA.
Student Resources for
learning WebCT the online learning environment at the University of
Georgia (UGA).
John
Unsworth's Page A Nice use of tables This is a useful example for
webpage developers.
Basic Unix
Commands
Net Mechanic
This is an extraordinary piece of on-line software that will check all of
the links on your web page(s) and email you the URL where you can get
its report in less than two hours--for free and without any conditions.
Submit It! Free submits your
website to seven major search engines for free.
Submit URL to
Altavista
Submit URL to HotBot
Submit URL to Lycos
Submit
URL to InfooSeek (Try during business hours Pacific Time.)
Submit URL to Excite
Current UGA
Computer Lab Availability-- updated every
5-10 minutes.
Representatives
of Georgia and Georgia's 11th Congressional
District (Athens)
Find and Email Your
Representatives in Congress
Administrative
Calendars for Academic Affairs, UGA This includes final examination
schedules.
Academic
Calendar, 2001-2002
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