Research Tools
 

Library Resources
Research Reference

CountryWatch (Provides up-to-date news, critical country-specific intelligence, and information on each of the recognized countries of the world)

Congressional Quarterly Electronic Library (CQ Global Researcher, CQ Researcher and CQ Weekly)

How to Find What You Want On the World Wide Web (University of Buffalo)

ILC Glossary of Internet Terms

The Internet Public Library - Reference Center

Librarians' Index to the Internet

Turnitin.com (Plagiarism prevention)

Finding Research Information 

Bartleby.com (Combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web). 

CNN (Up-to-the minute news, weather, and sports.)

Find Law (Legal News and Commentary)

LawGuru and Internet Law Library

FirstGov (Provides access to all online US Federal Government resources.)

FIND NC (Access web sources, electronic database indexes, and printed materials produced by North Carolina state agencies)

GovEngine.com (Premier federal, state & local government site on the web)

State of North Carolina (Gateway to North Carolina state agencies)

U.S. Census Bureau

Writing Research Papers

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

A Research Guide for Students

Britannica Online (Includes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Britannica Book of the Year, and thousands of links to other World Wide Web sites.)

Citation Builder (SourceAid) lets you create and format your MLA, APA, CMS, and CSE style bibliography online to save time and ensure accuracy in documenting your sources.

Citation Styles Online

Guide to Library Research

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography

OneLook Dictionaries (Indexes over 2 million words in 569 dictionaries.)

Oxford English Dictionary Online (Meaning, History, and evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1500 years)

Roget's Thesaurus

The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format

Writing a Research Paper