Welcome to the St. Joseph's College Research Guides

 

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Basic Research Guide: Subject Guides: General Websites Style Guides: Search Engines

 The following guides may be useful as a  starting point for research. Each guide lists recommended library resources and websites  in a specified subject, as well as instructions for locating them.

 

Basic Research Guide:

The Basic Research Guide directs you to general background resources in a variety of subjects, as well as providing guidance in the research process. Basic Research Guide

 

Subject Guides:

• Business - includes Business Management, International Business, Marketing, Industries & Corporations
• College Career and Job Resources
• Education / Child Study
• Fine and Performing Arts
• Foreign Language
• History - includes American History, World History and Contemporary International Problems
• Literature and Classics
• Math and Computer Science
• New York and Long Island History
• Nursing - includes Community Health
• Philosophy and Religious Studies
• Psychology
• Recreation and Leisure
• Sciences - includes Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences
• Social Sciences - includes Sociology, Criminal Justice, Political Science and Economics
• Speech - includes Communication and Speech Language & Hearing

 

General Websites

General websites, such as style guides, search engines, online books, government and statistical sources may be located on the general website page. For subject specific websites, visit the appropriate subject guides.

 

Style Guides:

 

Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online Duke University - Works Cited examples Guide to Grammar and Writing	Purdue University's Online Writing Lab University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center http://www.studygs.net/

 

Search Engines

Google Scholar

Google

AllPlus - Metasearch engine - searches Google,Yahoo, Ask, Live

Ask.com

Clusty - Groups results into topics.

IncyWincy - Searches the "invisible web"

Polymeta - Metasearch engine - choose to search Google, Yahoo, Ask, Exalead, AllTheWeb, Gigablast,Cuil, and Bing.

Yahoo