LINKS by subject page 1

GENERAL REFERENCE
Reference desks - portals
Start from GOOGLE and WIKIPEDIA.
How to search the internet
Voice of the Shuttle by Alan Liu USA
Internet Public Library: Reference Centre
LII Librarian's internet index: Annotated links, USA
encyclopaediae
MANY LANGUAGES
Wikipedia the free encyclopaedia Click at the language of your choice.
ENGLISH
Bartleby.com
Encyclo, Dictionaries, English books and poetry Online.
Perseus Encyclopedia A to Z for classicists
NOT free:
Britannica.com

RESEARCH TOOLS
How to search the internet
Libraries
Maktaba aliskandariyya EGYPT - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in arabic french english
How can we not start from here?!
Library of Congress, USA
British Library, GB
Bibliothèque Nationale de FRANCE
Gallica
COPAC GB-Ireland 20 University Research Library Catalogue
Berkeley University Libraries California, USA
Indiana University Digital Library Program USA - IUCAT catalogue @www.iucat.iu.edu
Princeton University Library USA
librarianship
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
@wkipedia
LIBRARY of CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
LC @www.loc.gov

Universities
alma mater studiorum: University of Bologna, Italy founded c.1088
@wikipedia
Oxford GB founded c.1231
Cambridge GB founded c.1231
la Sorbonne FRANCE (13 Paris Universities) founded c.1253
Heidelberg University GERMANY founded c. 1385
Harvard USA founded c.1636
Yale USA founded c.1701
Princeton USA founded c. 1756
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) USA founded c.1865
Berkeley USA founded c.1866
LINKS ON UNIVERSITIES
Universities by Countries @wikipedia

Dissertations-Databases
dissertation.com International Thesis & Dissertation On-line Digital Library & Bookstore
UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations - ProQuest Digital Dissertations
GB IR Index To Theses of Great Britain and Ireland

Journals
Genamics JournalSeek - Information on Thousands of Academic Journals by Category

Styles and Bibliographies: how to write your thesis
Styles:
MLA = Modern Language Association of America (1985).
APA = American Psychological Association
MHRA = Modern Humanities Research Association.
and many more...
For my bibliography I use MLA, but have added a latin-alphabet index (see my bibliography) because I work with many different alphabets, and sorting was a nightmare.
Research guides for students, MLA examples @www.aresearchguide.com
Tutorial @owl.english.purdue.edu
Category:Style_guides @wikipedia

Publishers of textbooks
Books have companion sites, with outlines, flashcards, and sometimes nice material. Keep an eye on the domain of your choice.
Houghton and Mifflin www.hmco.com.
Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org
McGraw Hill www.mheducation.com/
Prentice Hall www.prenticehall.com
W.W. Norton books.wwnorton.com and www.wwnorton.com/studyspace

News
BBC News Online, GB
Thousands of newspapers on the Net

LANGUAGES
Languages links
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MultiDictionary links
Linguisitcs and phonetics links
Scripts and alphabets links
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Chinese language links
English language links
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Classical languages links (sanskrit, greek, latin)
COUNTRIES
Places, maps links
History
History links
Historical sources links
Periods of history
Ancient history links
Mythology links
Middle ages amd new times

links checked in Aug 2007, Nov 2017.