Local Reference Materials

Howard County Library http://www.hclibrary.org
Howard County Library Databases http://www.hclibrary.org/index.php?page=74
Reservoir High School Media http://web.hcpss.org/~kzellner/
RHS Online Databases

http://web.hcpss.org/~kelli_zellner/?OpenItemURL=S0646E026
RHS Catalog http://pac.hcpss.org/hcps/hs/rhs.htm
Maryland's Public Information Network

http://www.sailor.lib.md.us/
University of Maryland Baltimore County Library http://www.umbc.edu/aok/main/
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL) http://lib2.jhuapl.edu
University of Maryland at Baltimore- Health Sciences Library/Law Library http://www.umaryland.edu/library
Morgan University Library http://library.morgan.edu
Coppin State University Library http://www.coppin.edu/library
Towson University Library http://cooklibrary.towson.edu

Web-Based Sources Shared in Class (see handout for specific details)

Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org

Questia

http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp

MIT Open Courseware

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Cogito

http://www.cogito.org/default.aspx

Elsevier's Science Direct

http://sciencedirect.com

Government Science Publications

http://ntrs.nasa.gov

http://www.osti.gov/bridge

http://www.dtic.mil

Discovery Education

http://www.discoveryeducation.com

Futurity

 http://futurity.org

Pubmed

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, and Reference Materials

Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/aplus/
Dictionary http://www.dictionary.com
Uncle Sam's Reference Shelf http://www.census.gov/stat_abstract/
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Google Products

Google Books http://books.google.com
** Find full books, or link to local libraries that have the books available.  If you have a current H oCo library card, you can ask them to order you books that are at other county libraries.
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com 
** Find abstracts and full articles on your topic.
Google Docs http://docs.google.com
** Compose word processing and spreadsheet documents online; invite others to join you in a collaborative edit of what you’re writing. Create free surveys.

Google Blog

 http://www.blogger.com/home
**Create a blog including photographs, links, etc.
Google Pages and Sites

http://pages.google.com/

http://sites.google.com/
**Create your own webpages and wikis.

Sketch Up

 http://sketchup.google.com/
**A sketching tool to create 3D models of anything.

Translate

 http://translate.google.com/
**Translate pages into other languages.

Calendar

http://calendar.google.com
**Record events, assignments, etc.  The calendar on my web page is a Google calendar!

Resources Presented by the Media Specialists:

Free office tools (if you don’t have Microsoft Office).
Open Office http://www.openoffice.org
Neo Office (Mac) http://www.neooffice.org

Free Browser that works with the rest of the tools.
Firefox http://www.mozilla.com 
Tools for Research
Bubbl.us http://bubbl.us
**Create webs and graphic organizers and print them.
Delicious http://del.icio.us
**Rather than bookmarking sites that you can only get back to when you’re on your home computer, Delicious allows you to bookmark them online and access them from anywhere.  If you have Firefox, you can download an extension that puts a button on your toolbar.
Studicious http://stu.dicio.us
**Studicious allows you to take notes online, upload files and share them with others, and link information in your notes to other sites so that you can look up unfamiliar information.  For example, if you find a passage online that you want to save, copy it into the notes of Studicious, cite it, and you don’t have to find the original website.  If there are terms in it that you don’t understand, put {} around the terms, and it creates links to look them up!
Quizlet http://quizlet.com
** Create online flash cards for any subject, and then test yourself.  You can even print them!
Trailfire http://www.trailfire.com
**Leave a “breakcrumb” trail of all of the sites you’ve visited, and make notes about them. If you have Firefox, you can download an extension that puts a button on your toolbar.
MyStickies http://mystickies.com
**Put stickie notes on any webpage that will reappear when you visit that page again.  It’s just like annotating the books you read for English!  If you have Firefox, you can download an extension that puts a button on your toolbar.
Scirus (Science Only)

http://www.scirus.com 
Cogito (articles, interviews, and lots more) http://www.cogito.org
United Streaming (student_hcpss; student) http://www.unitedstreaming.com 
EasyWhoIs (who owns any website) http://www.easywhois.com

Search Engines

Google Search Engine http://www.google.com
Yahoo Search Engine http://www.yahoo.com
MSN Search http://www.msn.com
Bing http://www.bing.com

Social and Current Issues

The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com
The Baltimore Sun http://www.baltimoresun.com/
Social Issues (I) http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html
Opposing Viewpoints (log in through the media center) http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/glen20233
High School Debate Topics http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/hsdebate.html
Issues and Causes http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes/
Social Issues (II) http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html

Research Reference Materials

Citation Styles for Research Papers http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm
Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Noodle Tools http://www.noodletools.com