John Lye’s General Resources Page

Yahoo A major search and resource information center on the Web; Yahoo Canada; there also good resource pages at some of the major search engines, for instance Altavista and Hotbot

Research-It! -- quick on-line dictionary, thesaurus, translation, quotations, etc.

A Web of On-Line Dictionaries -- over 800 dictionaries in 160 languages, grammars, thesauri, at Bucknell; other dictionary sources are One Look Dictionaries which searches multiple on-line dictionaries, and YourDictionary.Com

Virtual Reference Desk -- Bob Drudge

The Scout Report -- Weekly posting of annotated links of interest to serious-type folks

Canadiana, the Canadian Resource Page -- lotsa links

The Canadian Encyclopedia (English version; French version)

Canadian Information by Subject -- National Library of Canada

The Voice of the Shuttle A not-to-be-missed page for research in the Humanities

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

The 50 best science dn technology sites -- Popular Science

Internet History Sourcebooks Project -- at Fordham, very good

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line. H-Net is a set of academic discussion lists supported now by a Web presence.

The World Factbook 2000 The CIA's information page; information of various countries can also be found at E-Conflict, a site devoted to cultural understanding, and at Worldskip a site with lots of links for each country in the world.

World Area Studies Internet Resources Western Connecticut State U. -- a good page

Foreign Affairs On-Line

College and University libraries on-line a part of Webcats, library catalogues on the WWW.

And now for something completely different -- The Dark Side of the Net: get Gothic!

Searches

Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources (Virginia Polytech & State U)

Finding Information on the Internet: a Tutorial (Berkeley)

Bare Bones 101 -- a tutorial on searching the Web from the University of South Carolina

Search Engine Showdown The Users' Guide to Web Searching

Open Directory -- the search engine's first stop

JournalismNet has some good search resources, in categories. Canadian, too.

There are a number of sites which search many engines at once (but single searches are more reliable) -- e.g. ixquick ; Dogpile; Metacrawler; Findspot

There are many fine individual engines, possessing differing features. This is my order of preference: Google; Fast; Hotbot; Lycos; Altavista ; Excite; Northern Lights (has a nice feature in that it puts like items into 'folders')

In addition to the search engines there are edited directories, such as Open Directory; another of the best is Looksmart, and of course there is Yahoo; there are good edited directories at some of the major search engines, for instance Altavista and Hotbot. See also Suite 101 -- a directory-type, annotated engine which gives you the five top sites first; Links 2 Go -- a portal or meta-page that uses machine-learning and intelligent-agent technology to generate a selective list of links "most representative" of each of thousands of topics

A newer information source is the 'expert' site, where, for free or cash, depending, experts in various fields answer questions. Among then are Ask Me.Com (free), Expert Central (free), InfoRocket.com (a 'bid' site).

Search Engine Guide: The Guide to Search Engines, Portals, and Directories -- 2243 search engines, etc; categorized

There are many different kinds of searches on some pages, including the All-In-One Search Page

Search news groups, mailing lists (listservs) at Reference.Com

List of Lists Find the discussion groups on the topics that interest you.

Noesis: Philosophical Research On-Line -- a dedicated search, easy to use

For a guide to search engines, what they are, which does what best, how to use them, visit The Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines; see also the relevant page at Learn the Net

search the Brock Library

A source for finding discussion groups ("listservs")

Forum One's Forum Finder: search over 37,000 Web discussion groups

Canada 411 -- phone numbers, etc for Canada on-line News Searches

Read about the various news searches at Search Engine Showdown (helpful)

Search the World at the Washington Post International Page

Search the Bible

Bible Gateway -- search the Bible in six versions, ten languages
OR The Unbound Bible -- seven English versions, Greek and Hebrew versions, four ancient versions, 15 other languages, plus other resources, including a Matthew Henry's commentary, parallel view of versions

Writing Essays:

Style and other guidelines:

Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online -- a very fine site for finding and documenting sources in the major discipline areas.

Writer's Handbook at Wisconsin, including APA style, MLA style, Chicago style. There is a good APA page at Bill Borst's APA Writing Style Guide '2000

Material from Capital Community-Technical College, including:

Guide to Grammar and Writing -- Highly recommended

MLA Style: A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation

APA Style: A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Styles Recommended by the American Psychological Association

There are many valuable links as well on the Voice of the Shuttle Style Guide list on its Reference Page

General help

As well as the sites above, try these: Write101.com has writing tutorials, resources; Traditional Grammar: An Interactive Book -- complete grammar text, on-line quizzes

good general advice on writing essays and research papers can be found at Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Jack Lynch has a disorganized but useful page, Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors

check the Writing at the University of Toronto site.

the U of Toronto Philosophy Department's writing site has some good advice on various specific kinds of assignments.

Citing electronic sources

The University of Wisconsin Writer's Handbook has a good page, Citing Electronic Sources: MLA and APA Styles

Bedford Martin has a very helpful site in support of its book Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources

There are many links to resources at Citation Guides for Electronic Documents, maintained by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.

there are many other good resources at the Voice of the Shuttle Reference Page

Fine Art & Music

Art on the Web -- over 1200 well categorized links to art and architecture; Jeffery Howe, Boston College

Artcyclopedia a fine art search engine, a database of over 7500 artists

Art History Webmaster's Association at UQAM; methodology, links size="4"

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web -- a Smithsonian Institute project

History of Modern Art -- Museum of Fine Art

Artchive -- an excellent site, lots of good material

Carol Jackson's Fine Art: A Virtual Art Museum

Investigating the Renaissance -- an interesting look at scientific methods of studying paintings

Artlex: Dictionary of Visual Art

UCR/California Museum of Photography

Photography -- links at Open Directory

Worldwide Internet Music Resources

Essentials of Music (classical)

A Jazz Improvisation Primer

Write your own web pages:

Here is the dope on programs to compose web pages: you can do a better job, and for the most part, quicker in the long run, if you will spend a few hours learning HTML rather than fiddling around with that program.

There are an enormous number of sites to help you with all aspect of web page composition, design, and so forth -- for instance, CNET has an collection of sites for work on the Web, as does The Web-Builders' Tool Kit, Web Development Resources (eBORcOM), and The Web Developer's Virtual Library;you can locate tutorials on various aspects of web work at Tutorialfind.

For those who want to learn HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the language for composing web pages, there are a number of excellent resources -- here are some (I had a whole lot of tutorials on this page, but it was somewhat redundant.):

W3Schools.com has very good tutorials on HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and other web-creation resources, with on-line practice

Pagetutor.Com by Joe Barta has good tutorials on HTML, tables, frames

HTML for Beginners at CNET

Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating Web pages at the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction -- quite extensive

Introduction to HTML at Case Western Reserve

Web Monkey (at Wired) has a handy 'cheatsheet' of HTML commands.

Various sites will lead you to programs that will help you make and improve your web pages. Web Monkey's Toolbox is short, sweet and good; Tucows has an excellent well reviewed selection of programs.

Web Review will help you stay current -- a bigger publication that Web Monkey.

There are a number of sites with a lot of information for web page creation, and for web site development and maintenance, such as Web Development Resources (eBORcOM), and The Web Developer's Virtual Library

In designing your pages, you should check out the recommendations at GDNet's Writing for the Web You should write HTML in a plaintext (asci) program, and save it with the suffix .html to see what you have done so far. Make sure you Save your latest changes, and press the Reload button on your web viewer (html writing programs have an automatic command for doing this). You can use any asci program for your editing, or do it on a regular word processing program and Save As text only; even Eudora will do. There are however good, free editor programs which have the advantage that you can save in UNIX mode -- this puts your text on the server in better shape: for the Mac, BBEdit Lite, for Windows, Note Tab Light.

For the PC there is a composing program that I like that will among other things convert .rtf files into clean, managable and easily editable HTML format, Arachnophilia; it has an ftp function built into it as well. The program is "careware;" it costs no money, you are simply asked to brighten your world a little in recompense.
Once you upload your file (see your local webmaster for details on doing that), you can edit it on the unix server using the Pico editing progam, which works just like the mail program Pine. You will need to log on to your server and either change directory to the directory your file is in (e.g. cd web/courses/1F91 ), then type "pico filename" (without the quotes, of course), or include the pathway in your pico command (e.g "pico web/courses/1F91/filename"). Unlike html, unix is particular about upper and lower cases.

For information on basic unix commands, go to Enough Unix for Your Résumé at Webmonkey; for a fuller set of commands and help, go to Unixhelp for Users; for technical terms you may run across and don't understand, go to pcwebopaedia, an on-line database with links to more information, a good resource.

For some backgrounds, bullets and lines, go to W3Schools' graphics links page or, for more, to Windweaver or The Mining Company. Click on the image you want (a dialogue box will pop up) and save it to your hard drive, then use your file transfer program (ftp) to upload it to the unix. For information on colours, go to this address; for a neat page which allows you to try out varous colour combinations, go here