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Research Tools on the Internet

The sites listed here are generally very reliable.
Use caution when browsing the web in general, however, as many sites are not reliable.
MARINER (Maine Academic Research Initiative for Electronic Resources) is the central electronic research tool for the University of Maine System. It includes URSUS (the on-line card catalog for the UMS and other Maine libraries, and much more) as well as a host of other materials.
UMM Writing Center UMM's Writing Center compresses a great deal of information and resources into one site.
Getting the Most from the Internet A variety of sources to help you to get comfortable with on-line research.
Search Engines Search Engines are indexes which help you to find information when all you have is a general topic.
Research Tools Dictionaries, Thesauri, Quotations
News Sites
Government Sites
Other Libraries.
Digital Library Websites Virtual Libraries of Electronic Texts.  No need to check them out or buy them: they are always on-line.

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Research Tools on the Internet

If you have followed this far you will see what you would have seen, had you clicked on the various links above.  That is, what follows below is a detailed list of the categories listed above.

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Getting the Most from the Internet
Resources for Web Surfers
Understanding and Using the Internet
Newbie Training
Interactive Guide to the Internet

Evaluating Internet Sources
Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools

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Search Engines
Alta Vista
Ask Jeeves
Excite
Google
GoTo
Hotbot
Infoseek
looksmart
Lycos
Webcrawler
Yahoo
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Research Tools 
Roget's Thesaurus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
MLA- and APA Style Citations of Electronic Sources
Encarta Encyclopedia
Britannica Online

News Sites
The New York Times on the Web
The Washington Post
U.S. News Online
National Geographic
CNN Interactive

Government Sites
U.S. Census Bureau: The Official Statistics
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
U.S. State and Local Gateway
Jon Reisman's Site

Libraries
UMM Merrill Library
Library of Congress
University of Maine
Other US Libraries

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Digital Library Websites 

Stanford University
University of California at Berkeley
University of Michigan
University of Illinois
University of California at Santa Barbara
Library of Congress Digital Library
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
National Library of Canada
eLib Homepage
The Electric Library
Project Gutenberg - Great Works of Literature
Bartleby

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