Research Guides: ESSC Recommended Databases and Resources for Research: Web Resources

Web Resources

The following is a list of useful and interesting Websites covering a wide variety of subjects that may be helpful.

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL): MLA Citation Style Guide
An excellent MLA citation style guide.
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL): APA Citation Style Guide
An excellent APA citation style guide.
USA.Gov
The U.S. Government's official Web portal.
State of California
Facts, history, maps, state government information, and more -- all about the golden state.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
The federal government's primary resource providing career guidance.
Google Scholar
Searchable scholarly literature.
Wolfram Alpha
Computational facts and calculations, and related information.
Bartleby.com
Books in the public domain -- reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction.
How Stuff Works
Credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world works.
Internet Archive
Searchable digital repository of books, movies, music, and the Wayback machine.
Library of Congress
The Library of the United States with an excellent digitized American history collection including scanned primary source documents, and much more.
Science.gov
A gateway to government science information and research results.
WorldCat
The world's largest online library catalog.

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Research Tips

Anyone can publish information on the Internet. So, how can we tell if the information on the web is reliable? These criteria from the Cornell University Library will help determine credible sources containing the most recent information.
Evaluating Web Pages (Cornell University Library)