Online Research Resources

Online Research Resources
American University of Sharjah

The links below are intended to provide a starting point for research in addition to
research done in the more traditional way using the books, periodicals, and access
to databases available in our university library.

AUS Library Web Site
http://library.aus.ac.ae/

Using the World Wide Web for Research

Internet Research Starting Points

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/tools/research.html

A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW

http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/

Writing On and With the Internet

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/index.html

Research and Documentation Online

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web

http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html

Using APA Style

APA Style Essentials

http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.cfm?doc_id=796

A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Styles Recommended by the APA

http://cctc.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm

Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html

Using Principles of APA Style to Cite and Document Sources

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite6.html

Plagiarism and How to Avoid It

Avoiding Plagiarism

http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/resource/wc/AvoidingPlagiarism.html

Avoiding Plagiarism

http://www.writing.nwu.edu/tips/plag.html

How Not to Plagiarize

http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html

Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html

Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism: How to Write an Effective Research Paper

http://fdc.fullerton.edu/learning/Academic%20Integrity/student_guide_to_avoiding_plagia.htm

Magazines

Time.com

http://www.time.com/time/

Selected recent articles from Time magazine are available for free on this site. You can also search the Time Archives for all of the articles published since 1985. You might also try the Time Archives Student Center which suggests articles from the magazine related to various topics that might be appropriate for student research papers.

Newsweek Front Page

http://www.msnbc.com/news/NW-front_Front.asp

You can read recent articles from Newsweek magazine for free on this site. The Newsweek Magazine Archives also contains articles published since 1993.

USnews.com

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm

Articles published in U.S. News & World Report that are less than two weeks old are available for free on this site. You can also search the archives for older articles.

Newspapers/News Services

The New York Times on the Web

http://www.newyorktimes.com/

Read current articles from The New York Times for free or search the archives for articles since 1996.

Washingtonpost.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Search for free articles published in The Washington Post within the last two weeks, or search the archives for articles published as far back as 1977.

USAtoday.com News & Information Homepage

http://www.usatoday.com/

Access articles for free that have been published online within the past 2-3 years, or search the archives of the print version of USA Today for articles published since 1987.

The Times (London)

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/

You can access articles published during the last seven days in The Times and The Sunday Times for free on this site. You can also search the database of archived articles from as far back as 1985.

Gulf News Online

http://www.gulf-news.com/news/2002/0120/news.asp

You can read current articles or search the archives and access any articles published in The Gulf News after October 25, 2000 free on this site.

Khaleej Times Online

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/index00.asp

You can read current articles or search the archives and access any articles published in The Khaleej Times since January 1, 2001 free on this site.

Associated Press (AP)

http://wire.ap.org/public_pages/WireWelcome.pcgi/us_portal.html

This link will take you to the web site of the Associated Press, an international news service that provides articles for thousands of newspapers. Choose a newspaper anywhere in the United States that publishes AP articles, or click on the logo at the top of the page (or the word "here") to go to a random newspaper to search for the articles. Articles published within the previous two weeks are free. You can also search the archives of more than 250,000 articles published since July 1997.

United Press International (UPI)

http://www.upi.com/

This site provides links to recent news articles from the United Press International, and all the articles are free.

Other Useful Online Resources

Academic Writing: Research Papers

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/PlanResearchPaper.html

The Elements of Style (William Strunk, Jr.)

http://www.bartleby.com/141/