HCPSS's G/T site. It has information on the county's G/T program including
the
G/T Parent Academy
http://www.howard.k12.md.us/gtp
This the MRHS database listing. It also contains the Ho. Co. library
database listing.
http://pac.hcpss.org/hcps/hs/mrhs.htm
This SAILOR site allows access to MD public library directories and library
catalogs as well as an online reference service
http://www.sailor.lib.md.us/
High Beam Library Research- an extensive archive of more than 35 million
documents from over 3,000 sources -- a vast collection of articles from
leading publications, updated daily and going back as far as 20 years. Save
your searches, save articles and set up alerts to save time and increase
your efficiency
http://www.highbeam.com/index.asp?homepage=y&ctrlInfo=Round18%3AMode18c%3ADocFree%3AHdr%2EHome
"FindArticles" gives you free access to millions of articles from thousands
of top publications.
http://www.findarticles.com/
Kartoo is a visual meta search engine organized in a mind mapping fashion.
This is a very good source when trying to brainstorm for a research topic.
http://www.kartoo.com/
This is the Howard County Library web site.
http://www.hclibrary.org/
This is the Widener College tutorial that teaches students how to evaluate
the validity of a web site.
http://www3.widener.edu/Academics/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659/
This site is from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)and is an
outstanding source for helping with college level research writing. It
offers online handouts covering writing, research, grammar, and MLA and APA
style.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
This is Cornell University's site: The Seven Steps to Effective Library
Research
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/tutorial.html
This is Cornell University's site covering the basics of college level
annotated bibliographies.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm
This is the link for the UMBC library. At the bottom of this link is a link
for the High School Borrower Registration Form.
http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/circ/cards.php
This multifaceted link sponsored by Johns Hopkins University connects young
thinkers around the world
http://www.cogito.org/
MLA formatting site
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/researchsources/documentation/mla/
A large collection of scholarly Internet resources
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
The first subject directory on the Web. Features comprehensive,well-annotated
subject collections maintained by experts around the world
http://www.vlib.org/
Scirus (science search)
http://www.scirus.com/
Science site run by NIH. Students under age 18
must have a parent/guardian sign an agreement and mail or fax it to OSE
before being accepted into the program.
http://science.education.nih.gov
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly
literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and
sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from
academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories,
universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you
identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
http://scholar.google.com/
Searches edu domains and has other search options.
http://www.searchedu.com/