Research on the Internet

• Find book titles by searching the online catalogs of USD's Copley Library SALLY system or the Circuit catalog including UCSD and SDSU or the San Diego Public Library or Library of Congress or British Library Portico server
• Find books currently in print as hardback or paperback to purchase from Amazon or Barnes & Noble or out-of-print books from Bookfinder
• Find electronic texts online from UPenn On-line Books that includes the Gutenburg archive, and the Alex catalog, or from SearcheBooks from multisearch site Maxbot
• Find full-text articles from Academic Search and JSTOR and Dow Jones Interactive in the Copley Library Electronic Databases or article citations in Arts and Humanities Search or CARL UnCover ; see also FindArticles and MagPortal and Periodicals.net that includes an E-Journal full-text search; and History Cooperative
• Search engines include Google or Yahoo
• Dictionaries include yourDictionary.com and Online Language Dictionaries and Translators and Alta Vista Online translator
• Online Conversion for measurements and quantities
• Style manuals include the CGSO style guide recommended by the Alliance of Computers and Writing. For printed citations, use Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers available in the Bookstore. See also Strunk's Elements of Style and Charles Darling's Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Reference desks include Virtual Facts on File and Virtual Reference Desk from Tony Harvell, and the English Server from Carnegie-Mellon, and Fast Facts from Gary D. Price, and ResearchBuzz from Tara Calishain
• Encyclopedias include Britannica online and Bartleby and Encyclopedias on the Internet
• Government locators include FirstGov and Federal Web Locator and State Web Locator from Chicago-Kent, and Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present and Search Full-Text US Internet Government Periodicals
• Find companies from Industry Research Desk and company reports from SEC EDGAR and a list of publishing companies
• Find maps at Terraserver and Perry-Castenada Collection at UT and USD Map List
• Genealogy locators include FamilySearch from the Mormons
• Sherlock Plug-in Directories include Apple Donuts Sherlock Internet Search Archives
• Search Congressional Record since 1993 with THOMAS; patents since 1790 by number with USPTO; Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; archives of San Diego Union-Tribune since 1993 or NY Times Book Reviews since 1980
• Search films in the Internet Movie Database and Filmnotes

Sample Bibliographies

• Abigail Adams 1744-1818
• Manifest Destiny and Texas 1824-45
• Manifest Destiny and U.S. Exploring Expeditions 1838-54
• War With Mexico 1846-48
• California Gold Rush 1849
• Abraham Lincoln 1809-65
• Ulysses S. Grant 1822-85
• Civil War 1860-65
• Manassas and the Civil War
• American Civilization 1865-1989
• U.S. Diplomatic History 1912-1989
• Mass Media 1492-1989
• World War II 1939-1954
• Cold War 1945-1991
• Film History and Filmnotes