Library Reference
Buros Institute of Mental Measurement
The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements has more than a half-century history of serving the public interest and advancing the field of measurement. By providing professional assistance, expertise, and information to users of commercially published tests.
CIA World Fact Book
Includes a great deal of information about the geography, demographics, government, and economy of countries, territories, and regions of interest.
Citing Web Sites In APA & MLA Formats
This guide is neither a substitute for nor a summary of the APA or MLA publications. It provides, in greater detail, information pertaining to the citing of Internet sites and articles obtained from journal databases. This guide is intended to assist you in preparing references at the end of a paper. It pertains to documents retrieved from the Internet, including journal and databases. it also covers other sources, e.g., print, video, etc., and information on using references within the text of a paper and other aspects of citation style
Encyclopedia Britannica
Featuring the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Web’s best sites, magazine and more.
Fedstats
Is a subject guide to Web sites of more than 70 statistics-producing agencies of the US government.
FindLaw for Legal Professionals
An extremely powerful Internet guide to US case law, law codes, law review articles, legal news, lawyers, law schools, law consultants, legal organizations, and substantial information on more than 30 major areas of law.
Government Monthly Catalog
The Catalog of United States Government Publications indexes print and electronic Government information products created by Federal agencies. Many of these products were distributed through the Federal Depository Library Program.
LawMoose: Internet Law Library
The Internet Law Library (formerly the U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library) was originally provided to the public courtesy of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives as part of the Counsel’s mission to make the law (particularly the U.S. Code) available to the public. The Law Revision Counsel’s goal was to provide free public access to the basic documents of U.S. law.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress Online Catalog contains approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials.
The Literary Link
The site is designed for everyone interested in studying literature in the following categories: Young Adult Literature, Children’s Literature, Teaching English, Romanticism, 19th-century Prose, Short Stories, Poetry, Gothic Literature, English Education, Teaching Techniques, Lesson Plans, Composition, Internet Search devices, and Literary Theory.
National Archives and Records Administration: Office of the Federal Register
The Office of the Federal Register informs citizens of their rights and obligations by providing ready access to the official text of Federal laws, Presidential documents, administrative regulations and notices, and descriptions of Federal organizations, programs and activities.
National Catholic Reporter On-Line
Provides the current issue of the National Catholic Reporter online.
National Geographic (Resources)
nationalgeographic.com takes you to the pages of our venerable magazine and into the field with television crews. Provides the last 6 years of National Geographic Magazine online.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
Salem Press: Magill’s Literary Annual
Search the full text of Magill’s Literary Annuals from 1977 to the present. Evaluates 200 major examples of serious literature published during the previous calendar year. Covers works of interest to general readers.
Salem Press: Great Events From History, The 20th Century: 1901-1940
Search the full text of Great Events From History from 1901-1940.The early twentieth century receives worldwide coverage. The events covered include the curriculum-oriented geopolitical events of the era–from World War I (1914-1918) and the Russian Revolution (1917) to the rise of the German Nazi Party , the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the eruption of World War II in Europe (1939). Essays also address important social and cultural developments in daily life: major literary movements, significant developments in art and music, trends in immigration, and landmark social legislation. Among the many broad subjects that receive extensive coverage are Europe’s changing political divisions and shifting alliances, the struggles of women around the world to gain the right to vote, the development of trade unionism and the labor movement, and the global impacts of the Great Depression.
Salem Press: Great Events From History, The 20th Century: 1941-1970
The events covered include the geopolitical events of the era–from World War II (1939-1945) and the Holocaust to the formation of the United Nations and the start of the Cold War in 1945, from the Korean War (1950-1953) to the war in Vietnam (1959-1975). Essays also address important social and cultural developments in literature, the arts, music, law, and social and civil rights legislation. Among the many broad subjects receiving extensive coverage are the emerging environmental movement and the growing awareness of pollution; Europe’s changing political divisions and shifting alliances; global human rights struggles, including those of women, children, minority groups, and political refugees; the nuclear age; space exploration; postcolonial struggles and revolutionary political movements; dictatorships; and famine and natural disasters.
This set also covers major advances in medicine, science, and technology, including those discoveries that brought fundamental changes to daily life beginning in the early 1940′s. Medical scientists learned that DNA carries hereditary information and that its structure is in the form of a double-helix; they developed the polio vaccine and determined the structure of insulin and penicillin; and they advanced x-ray photography for medical purposes. Milestones were reached in computer technology, aviation, physics, astronomy, geology, and telecommunications.
Salem Press: The Sixties in America
The Sixties in America, surveys the events and people of the 1960′s, a turbulent decade that had a profound and lasting effect on the life and culture of the United States. The set not only provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of the three major events of the 1960′s that give the decade its distinctive character—the Civil Rights movement, the social revolution, and the Vietnam War—but also surveys important developments in the arts, science and technology, business and the economy, government and politics, and gender issues.
Writing From A-Z (The Easy-To-Use Reference Handbook)
With its alphabetical organization and the most student-friendly index available, this handbook ensures that all students will find the information they seek. Two thorough opening sections-”The Composing Process” and “The Research Process”-precede the alphabetical, topic-by-topic core of the book. Writing from A to Z offers extensive, up-to-date coverage of Internet research-including guidelines for evaluating and documenting sources-as well as coverage of four documentation styles: MLA, APA, CBE, and CMS (Chicago Manual of Style).
