Research Tools

Fact Tools, Finding Tools, Meta Tools, Hybrid Tools

FACT TOOLS

Wordbooks (e.g., dictionaries, thesauri, quotation books, concordances)
Almanacs and yearbooks
Directories
Biographies
Handbooks, manuals
Statistical compendia
Atlases & gazeteers
Chronologies
Looseleaf services/compilations
Summary & excerpt sets

FINDING TOOLS

Catalogs: libraries, archives, and consortia
Library Catalogs Worldwide via Web; and via the Library Gateway
about RLIN; Connect to RLIN via Library Gateway

Archives and Manuscript Collections on the Internet;

Repositories of Primary Sources

Guide to Primary Materials at Princeton
Bibliographies (national, trade, subject)
Indexes & Abstracts

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"META" TOOLS

Bibliographies of bibliography
Guide to reference works, major sources, and research methodology
Important Web Sites for Literature
Jewish Studies Resources
Scholar's Net
Internet Resources in Literature
Philosophy in Cyberspace
Finding God in Cyberspace

HYBRID TOOLS

Encyclopedias, textbooks, surveys

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Interdisciplinary Examples:

divorce in the eighteenth century

Library Online Catalog; connect.
Electronic Card Catalog; connect.
English Short Title Catalog
Dissertation Abstracts International
Historical Abstracts on Disc
MLA International Bibliography
ATLA Religion Database
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Web Search Engines ~ Web Search Engines and Subject Catalogs

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Audrey Wright and Michael Engle
Updated June 6, 1997
URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~humcomp/nttr/tools.html