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Citations Tools

There are many software tools available to help students and teachers collate and manage citations and references. Here are a few recommendations from library staff. If after reading this documentation you require further assistance in enabling reference management software to work with library resources.

Citations Machine:

http://www.citationmachine.net/

EasyBib 

http://www.easybib.com/

Mendeley 

https://www.mendeley.com/newsfeed

Endnote citation 

https://endnote.com/

Dictionaries

English Dictionaries:

Cambridge University Press:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Collins Dictionary

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/

Macmillan Dictionary

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/

Merriam-webster Dictionary

https://www.merriam-webster.com/

High School websites

General Websites

NASA Pub Media Central

PubMed Central (PMC) is a full-text, online archive of journal literature operated by the National Library of Medicine. NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from     NASA-funded research. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/funder/nasa/

https://www.nasa.gov/

Google Newspapers

Google has archived hundreds of newspapers, even spanning back to the 1800’s. If you are looking for old newspaper articles, this is the place.

https://news.google.com/newspapers

Awesome Library 

Awesome Library organizes 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent for teachers, students, parents, and librarians. It includes a search engine.

https://awesomelibrary.org/

AP HippoCampus.org

HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content–videos, animations, and simulations–on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge. 

https://www.hippocampus.org/

MLA Formatting and Style Guide

MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html

APA Formatting and Style Guide

APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6th edition, second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (6th ed., 2ndprinting).

https://www.apastyle.org/

English Language for high school:

 Shakespeare Resource Center

You’ll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you discover William Shakespeare. There are millions of pages that reference Shakespeare on the Internet. This site aims to make it a little easier to find the most useful ones.

http://www.bardweb.net/

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

This site has offered Shakespeare’s plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

The Folger Shakespeare Library

The Folger Shakespeare Library is revolutionizing the way Shakespeare is taught, showing how the study of his work deepens knowledge and hones skills across key academic areas.

https://www.folger.edu/teach-learn

Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare, the essential resource for William Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.

http://absoluteshakespeare.com/

Academy of American Poets
Becoming the original online resource for poems, poets’ biographies, essays about poetry, and resources for K-12 teachers.

https://www.poets.org/

The Favorite Poem Project

http://www.bu.edu/favoritepoem/index.html

American Digital History 

This site was designed by professors at the University of Houston to support the teaching of American history. The site includes an online textbook, historical documents, online exhibitions, interactive modules, and much more.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

Making of America (MoA)

Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

Early Americas Digital Archive

Is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.

https://mith.umd.edu/research/eada/

American Centuries

Explore American History with hands-on activities, exhibits, lessons, historic documents and artifacts.

http://www.americancenturies.mass.edu/

World War One

http://www.worldwar1.com/

 

BBC World War One & Two

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nb93y

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/

Biology

Geology Mineralogy Database

The Mineralogy Database was last updated on 9/5/2012 and it contains 4,714 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library.

http://webmineral.com/

 

Khan Academy 

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.

https://www.khanacademy.org/about