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RESEARCH TOOL LINKS

Library Home Page

Library Catalog

Research Guides:  Get Started!

InterlibraryLoan

Web Search Engines

Boolean Searching
(from University at Albany Libraries) 

Evaluating Resources
(from Ludke Library, Lesley Univ., Cambridge, MA)

Citing Sources (from Indiana University at Bloomington)

Plagiarism:  How to Avoid It (from Indiana University at Bloomington)

COURSE RELATED RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

EDU432 

Course Instructor:  Susan Mody

Fall 2007

Associations & Organizations:
ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education was closed Dec.19, 2003.  Materials from that Clearinghouse are available at Indiana Univ.'s Social Studies Development Center

AskERIC, now Educator's Reference Desk

National Council for the Social Studies

National Council for History Education

NY State Dept. of Education, Curriculum, Assessment & Instruction, Social Studies (includes standards, resources, links, etc.)

NY State Council for the Social Studies

Web Resources in the Social Sciences:

Our Documents

National History Day

History News Network

PBS Teacher Sources

The Learning Page, American Memory Project, Library of Congress

Smithsonian Center for Education & Museum Studies

The American Presidency

National Geographic Xpeditions

National Archives Digital Classroom

EDSITEment: Best of the Humanities on the Web

New York Public Library Digital Library 

National Atlas of the United States

New York State Historical Maps

Places OnLine - Assoc. of American Geographers

Digital Archives & Collections (directory of sites from UCLA Library web page)

PSU's Special Collections

Clinton County, NY - links to local community

GEM:  Gateway to Educational Materials

Webliography: Lesson Plans & Teaching Activities (from Curriculum Materials Committee of Education & Behavioral Sciences Section of Assoc. of College & Research Libraries)


Recommended Search Engines:
Google

Clusty.com

Yahoo Directories - Education or Social Science

Try terms such as digital archives or oral histories as part of your search terms

Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate (tutorial from U.at Albany, by C.A.Germaine)

 

Feinberg Databases By Subject
(Choose History, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Education, etc.)

Useful General Databases:
Academic Search Premier (full-text)

ProQuest Research Library (full-text)

New York Times Historical Newspapers (full text 1851 - 2001)

This page created by:  
Carla Hendrix, carla.hendrix@plattsburgh.edu
Last Updated:06/21/07