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Shop For Colleges | Links about Finances and College
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Links to Help You Succeed in College Classes | Etiquette
Links | Links on Term Papers
Links to Indexes of Reputable Online Reference Resources
| Links to Search Engines
Links to Shop for Colleges
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Almost every US college and university has its own website, so if you know which college you’re interested in exploring, simply use your favorite search
engine to do a search on the name of the college. That college’s website should
be #1 in the results listing. However, if you’re just beginning your search for a
college, try these sites.
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This simply organized site gives you links to the websites of all colleges and
universities or all community colleges in the state you choose. An excellent place to start your search.
http://www.50states.com/college/
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Peterson’s advertises its website as the “the most comprehensive and heavily traveled education resource on the Internet,” and that’s probably true.
Peterson’s, a division of Thompson Corporation, is well-known to librarians and
other information specialists for its many printed guides for students preparing for
college. The website’s home page is a bit busy with advertisements but the navigation is fairly clear-cut. You can do a detailed search to locate colleges that
match your desired location, major, size, tuition, and a number of other variables.
http://www.petersons.com/
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Links about Finances and College
 This site by the US Department of Education is the official place to go for information on the financial aid form used by many colleges. You can even
complete your FAFSA application online from this site.
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/
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This is the official site of the kinder, gentler Internal Revenue Service. Do a search
on the term “educational tax credits” and you will be directed to a page that lists all
publications about the effect paying for college has on your federal income tax. The
publications and forms you need can all be downloaded from the site.
http://www.irs.gov/
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Links for Advice on What College Is All About
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Links to Help You Succeed in College Classes
 This amazing site by Joe Landsberger of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul,
MN offers study skills essays in 16 languages, including sections on preparing to
learn, studying, classroom participation, reading skills, preparing for tests, taking
tests, writing basics, math & science, and using the Internet for research.
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/
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This site by the Academic Skills Center at Dartmouth University offers excellent
tips on time management, reading textbooks, taking notes, studying, and stress management.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/admin/acskills/success/index.html
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Etiquette Links (to Make You Feel Comfortable in New Situations)
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Links on Term Papers
 This site by the Self-Development Center at George Mason University gives a short and sweet introduction to the term paper writing process.
http://www.gmu.edu/gmu/personal/paper.html
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By the Writing Tutorial Service of the University of Indiana Bloomington, this site
offers excellent examples of how to quote and paraphrase correctly from sources to avoid the grievous charge of plagiarism.
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html
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This site from the Clement C. Maxwell Library at Bridgewater State College offers
clean examples of how to cite books and other resources in term paper bibliographies using the style specified in one of the standard print resources for
term papers, Kate Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.
http://www.bridgew.edu/Library/turabian.htm
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This page by Prof. Charles Darling of Capitol Community College in Hartford, CT gives in-depth information on how to cite resources using the style demanded by
the American Psychology Association.
http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm
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This is another page of the Capitol Community College website created by the Humanities Department and the Arthur C. Banks Jr. library. It offers advice on how
to cite resources using the style demanding by the Modern Language Association.
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
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Links to Indexes of Reputable Online Reference Resources
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When you do research online, it’s hard to know if the sites you search give accurate information. The indexes that follow help you narrow your research to
sites that are respected by librarians and other information specialists.
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This highly-respected Librarians’ Index to the Internet was created by the University
of California at Berkeley and 300 other California libraries.
http://www.lii.org/
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This WWW Virtual Library site was originated by WWW creator Tim Berners-Lee and is now coordinated by Gerard Manning and others. The quality of coverage of
various topics is spotty, but the site is still a remarkable volunteer effort.
http://www.vlib.org/
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This site from the Scholes Library of Alfred University in New York has a lengthy
page of links to online reference resources.
http://scholes.alfred.edu/ref_desk/ref.html
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This site by the Purdue University Library offers links to the best online sites for
dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, govt. documents, etc.
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/
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Links to Search Engines
 This search engine is the most frequently used in the academic community and is currently “the one to beat.”
http://www.google.com/
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This search engine was developed by researchers in Norway and the Dell Computer Company. It’s especially good for multimedia sites (those with pictures,
sounds and videos).
http://www.alltheweb.com/
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This new engine, developed by researcher at Rutgers, was recently bought by Ask Jeeves. Use this if your Google search didn’t give you the results you wanted.
http://www.teoma.com/
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This is another relatively new engine that has an attractively simple interface.
http://www.wisenut.com/
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“Meta” search engines search the indexes of several search engines and combine
the results into one list. This one dates from1994 research at the University of
Washington.
At present it does have ads, but it’s not as bad as some.
http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html
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This is another “meta” search engine with a simpler interface page.
http://ixquick.com
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