Research: Subject Information
This page is designed as an aid for students at West
Virginia State University. It provides links to posted assignments, citation
information, WebCT, and library
pathfinders-LINKS.
From the "Library's Reference Page" Quick Reference Tools including:
Buzz Words
Used in the Library |
How to Evaluate
Internet Information or why you use more than google:
- ICYouSee: T is
for Thinking by John R. Henderson at Ithacia College Library
- Internet Detective part
of the Intute Virtual Training Suite/Learning Higher Project at the
University of Bristol and Manchester Metropolitan University
Plagiarism:
What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It, from ISS Writing
Tutorial Services, Indiana University
Directory of Open Access Journals
(Scholarly and Scientific Journals)
Citations:
Pathfinders and Collected Sites: Pathfinders are single or double page lists
of the best available (in library or via library/web) resources to locate information on a specific subject: indexes,
reference books, journals, electronic and web links. (A good pathfinder takes
a lot of work, so most topics are not yet linked.) The Collected
Sites grow because they have been needed for class assignments, have been
suggested (to the library) by faculty for their classes, or are useful
starting points for assignments.
Art
Agriculture
Allied Health
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Communication
Criminal
Justice
- Pathfinder,
Criminal Justice Periodicals-DJL,
Abbreviations Table Criminal Justice
Abstracts cd
- Justice Information
Center (NCJRS)
- WV Crime Rates
1960-2000 | WV Division
of Criminal Justice Services. Statistical Analysis Center | WV Dept. of Corrections
Office of Research | WV & the US: A
comparison of Firearm-Related Mortality Rates from the WV Bureau for
Public Health
- Understanding
Community Policing: A Framework for Action, the Community Policing
Consortium's monograph on the evolution of community policing
- FindLaw: Supreme
Court Opinions, The
Supreme Court of the United States - Opinions
- OYEZ
U.S. Supreme Court Multimeda Oral arguments in the Court since 1995;
selective arguments on key constitutional cases earlier (increasing).
QTVR tour of the Supreme Court building.
- Supreme Court opinions via Cornell, the legal Information Institute
- West
Virginia Code
and West Virginia
Legislature
- U.S.
Code from the U.S. House of Representatives
- State, Federal and
International legal facts, decisions, code, etc from Washburn
University School of Law
- Thomas - Legislative Information on the Internet
- Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics (Files in acrobat, require
downloading.)
- additional
federal links from the "Reference Page" under Law &
Legislation
Economics
Education
Engineering
English
Environmental
Safety
Foreign Languages
General Education
History
-
- Exploring
Ancient World Cultures provided by the University of Evansvile,
Indiana. Essays on ancient cultures: Near East, India, Egypt, China,
Greece, Roman, Islam, Europe and translations of ancient texts.
- Resources
Guide to History on the Web from the Center for History and New Media
(CHNM) at George Mason University. A search line is available.
- Important Documents in US
History can be located fulltext by searching Ebscohost with the periodical
title "Essential Documents in American History",
remember to enter an additional word/term in the search box.
- Historical
Documents & Speeches a commercial site with changing ads at the
top, toward the bottom there are links to grouped documents on African
Americans, American Indians, Buffalo Soldiers, Vietnam War, etc.
- The History of Jim Crow
- African-American experience of segregation from the 1870s through the
1950s, teacher's resources included. The library has the four videos
listed under television (circ desk videos, E185.61 .R57 2002)
- Country Studies from
Library of Congress (see listing of the 101 countries covered on the
bottom of their page.)
- Combat Chronicles of
U.S. Army Divisions in World War II from The Army Almanac: A Book
of Facts...
- Dept of the Navy: Naval Historical Center
(Ships History
Branch)
- GRUNTS.NET - Home
of United States Military History includes sections on unit histories,
African-Amerians, personal stories, legends of the military.
- West Virginia: Big Coal River
Valley - Library of Congress' Tending the
Commons Folklife and Landscape in Southern W.V. includes sound
recording, photographs, etc.
Health & Human Performance
Mathematics
Military
Science
Music
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- allmusic.com
from AMG, a commerical site for media (music and movie) purchases. Site
allows searching by artist, albums, songs, style, label. Results produce
review, song/track list, album release dates, discography,
format
- BBC Four: Audio Interviews: Musicians Streaming audio (uses real player) of
interviews with eight world-famous musicians: British composer Malcolm
Arnold, conductor-performer Daniel Barenboim, Reggae legend Bob Marley,
conductor-performer André Previn, violin virtuoso Yehudi
Menuhin, British conductor Simon Rattle, and Indian sitar master Ravi
Shankar. The interviews average about eight minutes and will take a few
moments to start.
- Red Hot Jazz
Archive a history of Jazz before 1930 includes profiles of important
jazz singers and musicians
Physics
Political Science
-
- Polycy:
Internet Resources for Political Science metasite by Robert Duval
(Polical Science, W.Va. University) includes "If you are new ..." details
of the site, information on the Profession, teaching, research, service
and publications.
- World Factbook
- US Census
Bureau with Demographic and Economic Data on World Nations
- NACo: National
Association of Counties includes research about counties on a
national level, links to US Census for county demographic data, links to
county homepages. Site is regularly undated.
- Foreign
Embassies of Washington, D.C. maintained by TeleDiplomacy, Inc.
- U.S.
Diplomatic History Resources Index created by Nick Sarantakes at
Texas A & M University
- Country Studies/Area
Handbook online versions maintained by the Library of Congress.
- Regional
Bureaus and Country Information current; archived data to
1/20/2001 selection from the US Department of State site
- Foreign Policy
Association, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization seeking to foster
popular debate on international issues
- International
Information Programs maintained by the US Dept of State, includes
current issues, biographies in the foreign policy field, several
electronic journals
- The 9/11 Commission
Report, the full report both as a single file (2.3 MB, 585
pages) and as a collection of smaller pdf files arranged in a browse
table based on the report's table of contents
Psychology
ROTC
- See Military Science above
Social Work
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- Social Work and Social
Services Web Sites provided by The George Warron Brown School of
Social Work
- Bill
Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods provided by William
Trochim, Cornell University
- Women's Studies database & Other Web Sites from the University of Maryland
- Q R D,
electronic library of resources on sexual minorities
(background,reference, fact sheets, historical events), the QRD
organization has an anti-censorhip policy.
- Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender Resources maintained by Michigan State
University Libraries
- National
Coalition for the Homeless
- International HOMELESS
Discussion List, Archives and Weblinks - Homepage from CSF located at
the University of Colorado
Sociology
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