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Internet Archive
The Wayback Machine
- Archive.org
Browse through 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few
months ago.
To start surfing the Wayback Machine, type in the web
address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter.
Then select from the archived dates available.
As of April 2009, the Wayback Machine comprised approximately
4.5 Petabytes (4.5 million gigabytes) of archived web data.
The Wayback Machine will appeal more to "advanced"
web surfers - people who have been online long enough to wish that they'd
downloaded that page instead of just bookmarking it - now it's gone. The
Wayback Machine is a tool that lets you revisit/recreate bygone versions
of sites and extensive archival content of websites and web pages. Paste
a URL in the box on the home page, and the Wayback machine will retrieve
as many copies of that page as it has archived. If
you paste http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ into the Wayback Machine,
for example, you'll see (as at November 3/09) links to 238 separate
versions of this entire website (not just the home page) going
right back to December 2000, two months after I purchased my own domain
name ("canadiansocialresearch.net").
Canadian
Social Research Links : December 6, 2000
This is a functional archived copy of this website as at 06-12-2000 from
The Wayback Machine.
Use the Wayback Machine to access other sites right back to 1996..
Play with it - you don't have to register or anything,
and you can't break it.
And don't miss the special collections of historical links!
Wayback
Bookmarklet - Click this link, then scroll halfway down the page
to "Take The Wayback Machine With You". Drag the Wayback link
to your browser's toolbar (also called a Links bar). Now, when you click
a link to a website OR to website content and the link is dead, just click
your Wayback toolbar link and you'll be transported to a calendar with
links to any historic versions of the website or the file at the Wayback
Machine. Select the latest version before the link went dead.
[You'll just have to play with this tool to learn how useful it can be
to help you retrieve lost files and sites!]
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A practical example of how to make the Internet
Archive work for you:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/internet_archive.htm
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The Canadian Government's
Answer to the Internet Archive:
(but only for federal government website content, and only back to December
2005)
The Government of Canada Web
Archive
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/index-e.html
Since the Fall of 2007, Library and Archives Canada has been harvesting
the web domain of the Federal Government of Canada (starting in December
2005).Client access to the content of the Government of Canada Web Archive
is provided through searching by keyword, by department name, and by URL.The
archive currently contains over 170 million digital objects and more than
7 terabytes of data.
Source:
Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html
Publications Canada
http://publications.gc.ca/
The federal government's Depository Services Program (DSP) and Publications
websites have been integrated into a single searchable, browseable database
of federal government publications. The website of the Depository Services
Program was officially decommissioned on December 8, 2011.
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International Internet
Preservation Consortium
In July 2003 the national libraries of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland,
France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The British Library (UK), The
Library of Congress (USA) and the Internet Archive (USA) acknowledged
the importance of international collaboration for preserving Internet
content for future generations. This group of 12 institutions chartered
the IIPC to fund and participate in projects and working groups to accomplish
the Consortium’s goals. The initial agreement was in effect for three
years, during which time the membership was limited to the charter institutions.
Since then, membership has expanded to include additional libraries, archives,
museums and cultural heritage institutions involved in Web archiving.
For a complete list visit
our members page.
Megasites
Canadian
Information by Subject - Library and Archives Canada
Not a directory in the same sense as Yahoo, but rather a
collection of thousands of links to Canadian websites (government and
other), classified according to the Dewey Decimal System.
Easy to navigate, not cluttered with graphics, overall
a good guide to Canadian surfing...
See, for example...
Section 30 - Social
sciences in general
Section 36 - Social
problems, social service (incl. clubs, insurance)
- Be sure to start on the main page to see the entire
list of subjects
- Go to the Library
and Archives Canada Home Page
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project
based on an openly editable model. The name "Wikipedia" is a
portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative
websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and
encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to
related pages with additional information.
January 14, 2011
Wikipedia celebrates its 10th year and looks to the
future
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20028451-52.html
Wikipedia-an unplanned miracle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/14/wikipedia-unplanned-miracle-10-years
In praise of Wikipedia
http://www.economist.com/node/17902943?story_id=17902943&CFID=159815051&CFTOKEN=41373080
Wikipedia Comes of Age
http://chronicle.com/article/Wikipedia-Comes-of-Age/125899/
The State of Wikipedia
http://www.thestateofwikipedia.com/
Wikipedia-Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
On January 15, 2001, Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales began
a new project with the words "Hello, world." Their next entry
was "Humor me. Go there and add a little article. It will take all
of five or ten minutes." Since then, Wikipedia has become the go-to
online reference source for stumped college students, trivia fans, and
the generally curious. Of course, there have been many critics, and some
have claimed that many of the entries are merely sounding boards for those
who may be singularly possessed by a certain subject, and not in an altogether
objective fashion. Today, Wikipedia is the fifth-most popular online destination
in the world, and it draws in 410 million unique visitors a month. One
area of concern in recent years is that growth of new and discrete entries
on the site has slowed significantly. This may be expected due to the
fact that with 17 million articles, quite a bit of knowledge has been
covered over the past decade. Andrew Lih, who wrote the book "The
Wikipedia Revolution", commented that it will be integral for the
Wikimedia Foundation to reach out to large cultural institutions in the
coming years in order to provide the site with new, high-quality material.
[KMG]
The first link will take visitors to a piece from CNET's
Daniel Terdiman on the history of Wikipedia. The second link leads to
an opinion piece from the Guardian's Clay Shirky on the enduring popularity
of Wikipedia. Moving along, the third link leads to a humorous and insightful
article from last week's Economist about the future of Wikipedia. The
fourth link leads to a bit of reflection on the recent transformation
of the reference world from Casper Grathwohl, the vice president and publisher
of digital and reference content for Oxford University Press. The fifth
link leads to a short graphic presentation narrated by Wikipedia co-founder
Jimmy Wales that talks about Wikipedia's past, present, and future. Finally,
the last link is a bit of a "meta" offering, as it leads to
the Wikipedia entry on Wikipedia.
Source:
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2011.
http://scout.wisc.edu/
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Selected
Poverty and Welfare Resources from Wikipedia
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Subjects include:
Poverty - Welfare state - welfare - Welfare reform - Social safety net
- Human Development Index - Human Poverty Index - Measuring poverty -
Poverty reduction - Social Welfare in Canada - Poverty in Canada - Poverty
reduction - Homelessness in Canada.
* Recommended
reading!
AcademicInfo:
Subject Guides & Online Degrees
"Educational resources and subject guides since 1998"
AcademicInfo is an online education resource center with extensive subject
guides and distance learning information. Our mission is to provide free,
independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and
current students (and other researchers). AcademicInfo was founded in
1998 by Mike Madin, a librarian coordinator, and is now maintained by
multiple contributors. We currently feature over 25,000+ hand-picked resources
and update the website on a daily basis.
* Subject Guides
* Educational
Resources
* Education Blogs
* Online Degrees
* About & Help
From AcademicInfo:
* Canadian
Studies Links & General Resources
* Canadian Studies - Directory
of Online Resources on Canada
* Canadian Organizations,
Associations, Centres & Societies
Dictionaries - Thesaurus - Encyclopedia
dictionary.com
OneLook Dictionaries
WWWebster Dictionary
YourDictionary.com
ROGET'S Thesaurus Online
Refdesk.com- 716 links to online
reference sites
Wiktionary,
the free dictionary (English-language version)
Wiktionary is a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual
dictionary.
- includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics
and extensive appendices
- includes not only the definition of a word, but also enough information
to really understand it --- etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations,
synonyms, antonyms and translations.
Visuwords Online
Graphic Dictionary - It's a dictionary! Its
a thesaurus!
"Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other
words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn
how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or
double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background
to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see
the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around
to help clarify connections."
howjsay
. com
A free online Talking Dictionary of English Pronunciation
Bab.la -
incl. FR/ EN and EN/FR translations, of course et bien sûr!
The bab.la language portal offers you dictionary translations, language
quizzes & games, vocabulary lessons for learning and much more. bab.la
is interactive: You can enter your own translation, create your own language
test or your own vocabulary flashcard set. Bab.la is a language project
- "a portal where language lovers can meet and exchange their ideas
and learn languages from each other."
- incl. links to 25 bilingual dictionaries and millions of translations,
including pronunciation, sample sentences and many additional features
(word games, anyone?).
TheFreeDictionary.com
"English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia,
a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!"
LookWAYup
Multilingual English dictionary that allows you to find definitions,
synonyms and related words (thesaurus) for English words as well as their
other-language equivalents.
allRefer
- encyclopedia containing almost 52,000 entries along with a North America
gazetteer containing almost 50,000 entries. Includes country studies and
facts.
Wikipedia
Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the
largest reference web sites, attracting around 65 million visitors monthly
as of 2009. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on
more than 13,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of today,
there are 2,895,476 articles in English
Source:
Wikipedia
"The biggest multilingual open access encyclopedia on the internet"
Infoplease -
All the knowledge you need
"Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all
kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz
show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the
Internet."
The
Canadian Encyclopedia
"With the aid of its partners and the generous support of Heritage
Canada, Historica presents this site free of charge to all Canadians and
to interested users around the world. The site contains the complete text
of the acclaimed Canadian Encyclopedia in English and French, the text
of the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (in English only), numerous interactivities,
feature articles, games, the Canucklehead Quiz, and an extensive timeline
of Canadian and world events. The entire text can be searched via the
simple search or advanced search and the user can switch languages at
any time."
- features more than 10,000 articles written by a broad base of over 4,000
Canadians who are experts in their individual subjects. In addition to
entries written in hypertext format with bibliographies, the encyclopedia
offers interactive elements, such as statistical graphs, multimedia presentations
of key historical events, quizzes and games, student guides, monthly topical
features, and more. The encyclopedia is accessible in French and English.
Check out these two sample entries from the Canadian
Encyclopedia:
Social
Security
- excellent online resource by an expert in the field, Dennis Guest.
- includes History of Social Security in Canada and Renewing
Canada's Social Programs.
100
Greatest Events in Canadian History
EZGuideCanada
A Truly Canadian Start Page - Since 2001
Masterliness.com
Thousands of articles, organized by various regional and topical categories
including information about people, business, multiculturalism, history
and Canadian values.
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SourceWatch
(formerly Disinfopedia)
"...a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations
firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly
experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf
of corporations, governments and special interests. Sponsored by the Center
for Media and Democracy (http://www.prwatch.org),
the Disinfopedia was started in February 2003 and contributors are now
working on over 7,000 articles.
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FreeFullText.com
"...provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which
allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with
Internet access for free (though some may require free registration)."
Speling, grammar and style guides
The Canadian Style --- (THE BIBLE
for federal government writers)
The Canadian Style gives concise answers to questions concerning
written English in the Canadian context. It covers such topics
as the decimal point, abbreviations, capital letters, punctuation
marks, hyphenation, spelling, frequently misused or confused words
and Canadian geographical names. It also includes useful advice
for drafting letters, memos, reports, indexes and bibliographies.
Source:
Language
Portal of Canada
* About the Portal * Site Map * What's New? * * TERMIUM Plus®
* Writing Tools * Gateway to English * Quizzes * Clear and Effective
Communication * Dictionaries and Publications * Languages in Canada
* Language Training * Language Professions * Standardization *
Francophonie * Our Contributors (Geographical Index - Articles)
* Contact Us * FAQs
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Favourite
Articles
[Click "Search by title"]
Favourite Articles is a collection of articles from the Translation Bureau's
periodical, Language
Update, dealing with English language usage and style, translation
problems and other language-related matters.
The Elements
of Style (William Strunk, 1918)
The Classic.
Common
Errors in English
HumbleApostrophe.com
In addition to sound information on the
use of apostrophes, this site offers selected rules
of grammar and spelling, many of which are worth repeating here:
* Your/You're - 'Your gonna love you're
new house!'
* Who's/Whose - 'Whose gonna love who's new house?'
* Its, It's - 'The cat must be sick - its just barfed it's dinner.'
* Affect, Effect - 'He wasn't effected by the tragic news.'
* Me/Myself - 'For more information, please contact my assistant or myself.'
* Separate, Seperate - 'Kindly submit a seperate form for each case.'
* Apostrophes and words ending in "O" - 'The grocer had no tomato's
left by the time I arrived.'
* Compliment/complement - 'This report is a great compliment to the session
we attended.''
NOTE: All
of the above examples are incorrect.
If you agreed with *any* of those examples,
HumbleApostrophe.com can help you!
Grammar,
usage and style resources
A Handbook
of Rhetorical Devices
"This book contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional
rhetorical devices - from alliteration to zeugma - all of
which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness, clarity,
and enjoyment of your writing."
The
Grammar and Punctuation Glossary
From Acronym to Verb, definition and a link to usage
Source:
University
of Phoenix Online College Degrees
Blue Book of Grammar
and Punctuation
- incl. grammar and punctuation exercises and tests
Webgrammar
...help with spelling, grammar, homonyms, punctuation, capitalization,
and style; information in the areas of writing, education, typography,
academic research, and Web development...
Word
Wizards**(see note below)
"The Canadian Online Language Toolkit"
Government of Canada
Version française: Génies
des mots - La trousse langagière canadienne en ligne.
"Word Wizards offers a comprehensive compendium of online, made-in-Canada
language tools. You may also consult our Directory of Organizations to
find out who is doing what in the language industries in Canada. (...)
- collection of online resources - some free, some for a fee - for people
who write in either French or English
- incl links to : About Word Wizards - Directory of Organizations - Writing
Tools - Translation Tools (Fr/Eng - Eng/Fr only) - Terminology Tools -
Specialized Tools - Feedback - Study English or French in Canada.
Free
Language Tools - links to a dozen online free resources, mainly from
government and university.
**This site is dead - I don't think it was active
for more than two years...
Our federal tax dollars at work!
Here's
the Word Wizards website as it appeared (sans graphics) in March 2005
--- thanks to the Internet
Archive
Plain English
Campaign
The Phrase Finder
Meanings and origins of over 2,000 English sayings, phrases and idioms
Ouvrages de référence en français
Le guide du rédacteur - la bible de rédaction
du gouvernement fédéral
Le guide du rédacteur fournit la réponse à
une multitude de questions qui touchent l'emploi des majuscules,
de l'italique et des signes de ponctuation, la façon correcte
d'écrire les nombres dans un texte, les abréviations,
les citations et les coupures de mots en fin de ligne. Il
expose toutes les techniques possibles pour féminiser un
texte, les grandes règles de la correspondance, les principes
de la langue claire et simple et les règles détaillées
des références bibliographiques. De plus, un chapitre
entier est consacré aux noms géographiques canadiens..
Source:
Portail
linguistique du Canada
- liens vers les page suivantes:
* À propos du Portail * Plan du site * Quoi de neuf? *
En manchettes – Archives * TERMIUM Plus® * Outils d'aide
à la rédaction * Le français sans secrets
* Jeux
* Communication claire et efficace * Dictionnaires et publications
* Langues au Canada * Formation linguistique * Professions langagières
* Normalisation * Francophonie * Nos collaborateurs * Index géographique
* Articles * Contactez-nous * Foire aux questions
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.Dictionnaire
de la langue française - de l'Internaute
La grammaire interactive
- navigation par thèmes, un outil de recherche et un index alphabétique
permettent de consulter les fiches grammaticales de Softissimo. Les explications
y sont claires et les exemples pertinents. De plus, la rubrique «
Testez-vous » propose des exercices qui sont corrigés en
ligne.
Grammaire : Les
accords
Testez
votre orthographe
Dictionnaire de synonymes
Conjugaison en
ligne
Translation
Ode
to Traductors - [image] - why I have this
love-hate relationship with government translation...
TERMIUM Plus® [direct link to search page] -
now FREE!
- link to the Government Translation Bureau's terminology and
linguistic data bank, which contains nearly 4 million terms in
English, French and Spanish.
- includes the latest terminology in nearly all fields, equivalents
in either official language of acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations
- lets you find an expression using keywords
- helps you improve the clarity and effectiveness of your communications
and save time
Source:
Language
Portal of Canada
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Le grand dictionnaire
terminologique
Source:
Office de la langue francaise
Excellent! Traduit du français à l'anglais
et de l'anglais au français
Trois millions de termes français et anglais
dans 200 domaines d'activité
Translates words from French to English or English to French
- three million French and English entries in 200 fields
SENSaGENT
Dictionnaire - thésaurus - traducteur
- incl. multilingual dictionaries
French-English
Dictionary - from The ARTFL
Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French
Language)
Termes
juridiques - Ministère de la Justice du Québec (PDF
file - 159K, 26 pages)
This is a French-to-English dictionary, but you can go to
the English index at the end of the file and use it to find French legal
terms.
Harper Collins French-English
Dictionary (WordReference.com)
French-English
(ARTFL Project, University of Chicago)
Free online translation of web pages or text
*Google's Language
Tools
*Alta Vista Translation
Service
*Freetranslation.com
*Dictionary.com
Translation
*Go translator
*T-Text
(text only)
*These are free translation services where you can type
(or cut-and-paste) a word, a paragraph, a page or even a URL (Internet
address) and see the translation almost immediately. This is machine
translation, most suitable for someone who is looking for the gist
of a word/text/web page. Don't try using these services in lieu of human
translators, though -- they're pretty rough around the edges.
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Internet research tools
Below, you'll find a selection of links to Internet guides
and tutorials that I highly recommend to anyone from the "newbie"
to the seasoned veteran researcher - anyone who wants to improve their
ability to find things online. The date of the latest revision appears
at the bottom of each tutorial.
From
the University at Albany Library's
Internet Tutorials: Over a dozen current guides
and other resources in all - here are just a few:
[click
the link above to access the complete list] Understanding
the World Wide Web
A discussion of Web basics, including links, major
Web protocols, the makeup of URLs, and Web programming Multimedia
on the Web
A guide to the multimedia phenomenon The
Web and You
A guide to the social Web and how you can participate
RSS
Basics
What it is, why you need it, and how to use it Alphabetical
list of Search Engines Alphabetical
list of Subject Directories - incl. * Academic & Professional Directories
* Commercial Directories & Portals * Directory Archives How
to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
A chart listing numerous features
and the search engines & directories that support them The
World of Search Engines
Covers search engine basics, including general
search engines, meta search engines, concept categorizing search engines, and
vertical search engines The
World of Subject Directories
A guide to collections of Web resources
organized by people Source:
SUNY
University at Albany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Canadian
Search Engines (almost 60 links)
Source:
Search Engine Colossus
(links to search engines from 217 countries around the world!)
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Anywhere.ca
- Canadian search engine and directory
"... a search engine and directory
of over 75,000 Canadian websites. Online since April 2004, we are working to become
Canada's largest human edited directory." AcrossCan
- an exclusively Canadian search engine owned and operated in
Canada. The project was conceived after ongoing difficulty attempting to find
Canadian results from the larger search engines. Our goal is to provide a search
engine with Canadian only results. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[NOTE:
see the Web Authoring Tools page of this site for links
to sites and programs for web designers, including online services that check
your website to make sure that it's accessible by people with disabilities and
people with different types of browsers.]
Google
Scholar
"Google Scholar enables you to
search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers,
theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas
of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic
publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as
well as scholarly articles available across the web." Google
Scholar Search Results : ""social
assistance", Canada" (16,500 results on Dec. 31/08) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Metasearch
engines Outils
de recherche sur Internet en français
Maps
Google Maps
- maps, directions, local businesses
MapBlast.com
- "Everyone needs a little direction in life"
Canadian
Maps and Views (from Open Directory Project)
Canadian
Maps - plus travel info
YAHOO!
Canada Maps - enter a street address -- see a printable map and driving directions.
Canada and US only
Canada
Maps (from the University of Texas at Austin)
National
Atlas of Canada Online (Dept. of Natural Resources)
MAPQUEST - mapping the world
maps.com Atlapedia
Online
- full color physical maps, political maps
as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world
Virus and virus hoax resources
(separate page on this site)
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Computer
Related Repetitive Strain Injury
Excellent resources... Throw
your mouse away - see
Keyboard
Shortcuts
Time
Find
someone
White
Pages - Canada and U.S.
- includes links (tabs running
across the top of the page) to the following:
People Search * Business Search
* Reverse Phone* Reverse Address * Area Codes * Postal Codes * Tools and Resources
* Bulk Searches
YAHOO!
Canada People search (find someone's e-mail address)
Postal
Code Lookup - Canada Post
Canada 411 (12
million listings, incl. postal codes)
International
Phonebooks Directory - by country
Miscellaneous
From the Bank
of Canada:
*** Inflation
Calculator
The Inflation Calculator uses monthly consumer
price index (CPI) data from 1914 to the present to show changes in the
cost of a fixed "basket" of consumer purchases. These include
food, shelter, furniture, clothing, transportation, and recreation.
*** Investment
Calculator
The Investment Calculator shows the effects of inflation on
investments and savings. This tool allows you to see what a current
investment will be worth in the future based on different assumptions
on the annual interest rate and the annual rate of inflation. You can
also enter a dollar amount to see how much you would have to invest
today to reach a specific target value in the future, based on different
rates of interest and inflation.
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The Political Compass
Read the blurb on the main page of this site, then take the (entirely
anonymous) five-minute test. It will tell you where YOU are on the political
compass.
- includes a list of influential thinkers who think like you, based
on your test results...
How
Much Data Is That?
What the heck is a Yottabyte? Citation
Styles
APA (American Psychological Association) Style Guide
The
preferred the citation style for most universities
APA
Style: Getting Started (PDF file)
ASA Format and Style
guide (from Wikipedia)
Historica
Excellent Canadian history site, plenty of interactive features, plenty of
interesting content! eHistory
- "the site for history fans, enthusiasts and students. eHistory consists
of over 130,000 pages of historical content; 5,300 timeline events; 800 battle
outlines; 350 biographies; and thousands of images and maps." WhoWhatWhen
is an interactive historical database of people and events from 1000 A.D. to the
present. Create graphic timelines of periods in history and of the lives of individuals. Best
of History Websites Calculators
Online Center
- part of Martindale's
The Reference Center
Project
Gutenberg Home Page The
Online Books Page Page
by Page Books
"...hundreds of classic books you can read right
now, all absolutely free! It is an ideal way to expand your horizons, catch up
on your reading list, or read books that it seems like everyone else has already
read. Fix yourself a drink, get comfortable and Start Reading!" Books
by Title - links to almost 400 titles, from Aesop's Fables and Anne of Green
Gables to Tom Sawyer and War of the Worlds
Authors
- over 130 authors --- although I'm not quite sure how George Dubya Bush made
it onto the same list as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain...
Dilbert
Rick
Mercer Report The Phobia List - alpha
index or by type of fear... The
MegaPenny Project - what does a billion pennies look like?
Powers
of Ten - similar, but different... Universal
Currency Converter - from XE.com
How many
Euros is that, please?
The
Merck Manuals - Medical Reference
Full text online - incredible resource!
The
Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition uses everyday language to
present information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. The
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy is used by more medical professionals
worldwide than any other general medical textbook and has been continuously published
longer than any other English language general medical textbook. The
Merck Manual of Geriatrics features a unique interdisciplinary approach that
specifically addresses the challenges facing geriatric care. It includes information
on nursing care, pharmacy issues, and discussions of the best drugs for the elderly.
The Merck Veterinary Manual addresses
the medical issues of companion, food, and zoo animals. This book includes discussions
of etiology, transmission and pathogenesis, clinical findings and lesions, diagnosis,
treatment, control, and prevention of disease entities. The
Merck Index provides data and descriptions of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals.
The book contains over 10,000 monographs; subject matter includes human and veterinary
drugs, biologicals and natural products, agricultural chemicals, industrial and
laboratory chemicals, and environmentally significant compounds.
Source : Merck Frosst Canada
Interactive
Health Tutorials
- incl. Diseases and Conditions - Tests and Diagnostic
Procedures - Surgery and Treatment Procedures - Prevention and Wellness
Source:
MedlinePlus
"A Service of US National Library of Medicine and
the National Institutes
of Health"
Healthopedia.com,
a medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and
unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over
1,500 health topics, 70 focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and
medications.
First-Aid
Guide - from the Mayo Clinic
FirstAidGuide.net
Quotations
Familiar
Quotations by John Bartlett
"A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and
Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature." Quotations
- Links (from Yahoo!)
Moving
in Canada?
Canadian
Relocation Systems - "the Online Guide for people Relocating
or Moving in Canada, organized by City and Categories of interest from
Arts to Weather."
Compulsory reading for anyone considering a move to another Canadian
city!
Covers over 50 Canadian cities...
Links to an impressive collection of resources : moving planner &
checklist, cost-of-living reports, Canadian residential rentals, city
snapshots, income and work statistics, job resources, and much more
helpful information...
Google
Books
Seven million books, digitized and searchable!!
Check the FAQ and "more info" pages, then try the Google Book
search engine; you can search by title or keyword.
FAQ
: Using Google Books
More
info about Google Books - including information on how to do
a book search, the Google Books Settlement Agreement and the three-year
court case that started with a class action lawsuit against Google Books
by the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and a handful
of authors and publishers.
Below, you'll find links to three Canadian
social policy classics that I found on the Google Books site.
NOTE: Copyright legislation doesn't allow Google Books to post links
to free full-text books unless the copyright has expired or the book
is in the public domain. However, Google *can* publish snippets - sometimes
large chunks, in fact - of the content of those books. Check the three
links below to see exactly HOW much of the content is reproduced. The
user interface is a bit daunting at first, but it works well when you
get the hang of it.
TIP: The first thing you should do after clicking a link to the Google
Books collection (including those below) is to ensure that the scroll
bar on the right-hand side of your screen is at the top of the vertical
column. (That's because the links are search result links and they often
link to an anchor partway down on a page; if that's the case, scroll
up all the way to see the whole page.)
Food
Banks and the Welfare Crisis
By Graham Riches
1986
---
The
Emergence of Social Security in Canada
Third Edition
By Dennis Guest
1997
---
The
welfare state in Canada: a selected bibliography, 1840 to 1978
By Allan Moscovitch, Theresa Jennissen, Peter Findlay
1983
---
CAUTION : this site is addictive --- even
if you're not remotely interested in social policy, there's something
here to suit every taste under the sun.
How about:
* The Complete Book of Fly Fishing
by Tom McNally
* 400 Knitting Stitch Patterns
by Murdoch Books
* Seabiscuit : An American Legend
by Laura Hillenbrand
* Popular Mechanics February 1992
issue
* Popular
Mechanics collection
--- these are good examples of how generous the "snippets"
of content from the books can be...
Bartleby.com
"The preeminent Internet publisher of literature,
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- incl. tabs/drop-down menus for : Reference - Verse - Fiction - Nonfiction
- browse indexes by author, by subject or by title
Sample reference material available on
the Bartelby.com site:
Columbia
Encyclopedia (Sixth Edition)
"Containing nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half
million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000
hypertext cross-references, the current Sixth Edition is among the most
complete and up-to-date encyclopedias ever produced."
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
(Third Edition)
"Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in
an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions
and an innovative hyperlinked category index."
The American Heritage® Book
of English Usage
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English
"With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation,
gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference
work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned
about proper writing style."
The Columbia World of Quotations
"The 65,000 essential quotations that constitute this authoritative
collection represent the research of 154 experts. Entries from more
than 5,000 authors and speakers are multiply classified into 6,500 subjects."
Familiar Quotations "A
Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources
in Ancient and Modern Literature"
Compiled by John Bartlett
"This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations
and was the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published
after his death in 1905—the new editor, however, choosing more
to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations."
The Elements of Style - William
Strunk, Jr.
"Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this
classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious
writer."
The World Factbook, 2003
"The U.S. government’s complete geographical handbook, featuring
268 full-color maps and flags of all nations and geographical entities.
Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity
and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic
data."
The American Language An
Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H.L.
Mencken
"This classic was written to clarify the discrepancies between
British and American English and to define the distinguishing characteristics
of American English. Mencken’s groundbreaking study was undoubtedly
the most scientific linguistic work on the American language to date
and continues to serve as a definitive resource in the field."
The Encyclopedia of World History,
6th ed. 2001
"Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns’s comprehensive chronology
of more than 20,000 entries that span the millenia from prehistoric
times to the year 2000."
Harvard Classics - "...the
complete 70 volumes of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthology
of all time."
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