Books and Writing

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eJOURNALS

Boxes and Arrows

Web journal on architecture. Peer-reviewed.

Redmond Health Online

Free online health magazine

Entrez: PubMed

"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to mid-1960s and additional life science journals."

Information Today, Inc.

M@n@gement

"Double-blind reviewed journal where articles published in their original language as soon as they have been accepted. The purpose is to represent a diversity of management research at an international level."

National Science Digital Library

Comprehensive source for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

Internet Archive

A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

Pubmed NL

Free full text journals. Owner of the web site is Medicatie,Org, a dutch pharmacy consultancy office.

LITERATURE/ENGLISH/BOOKS

Cowboy Poetry.com

Bestiary Dreams

A sci-fi/fantasy booklist website; find books by author or series.

The Brown BookLoft

Book reviews by Gale Zasada, a librarian. All types of genres being reviewed from adult Christian fiction to mysteries to historical fiction and non-fiction including young adult titles.

Booklist

Fantastic Fiction

Compendium of authors and their books.

Library Journal

Literature Map

Looking for a new author? Looking for an author similar to one you just read? Literature Map puts out a visual representation of authors and their similarity/relation to each other.

Mostly Fiction

Another compendium of authors and books.

NoveList

Our library database of authors, books, series, and more!

Romance Reader at Heart: Book Database

A romance genre website devoted to helping readers find what they want.

Stop You're Killing Me

A mystery website resource by editor Stan Ulrich and Webmaster Lucinda Surber. Search for books by author or series.

The Undead Rat: With Intent to Commit Horror

A website devoted to horror authors and literature, complete with listings of books by series, author, or subgenre, as well as discussions on new releases!

The Washington State Library Agricultural Bibliography Project

NEWSPAPERS

Blue Mountain News

Independent arts and entertainment newspaper

The Union-Bulletin

Our major local newspaper based out of Walla Walla.

Access World News

Christian Science Monitor

Historic Washington Newspapers online

The New York Times

New York Times Book Review

Wall Street Journal

WRITING

Resources for the Essay Writer

Dictionaries, Thesauri, & Style Manuals

Dictionary.com

Merriam-Webster Online

One Look Dictionary

Word Detective

Questions and answers about words and language, in a humorous vein.

Roget's Thesauri

Contemporary version with 35,000 synonyms

The Glossarist

Searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries

Spanish Dictionary and Translator

Synonym Finder and Thesaurus

RhymeZone

Type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, and more

Hypertext Writer's Guide, from the University of Victoria

Grammar, Vocabulary

Bartleby.Com

Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers with unlimited access to books and information on the web.

Grammar Check .net

Guide to Grammar & Writing

Sponsored by Hartford Connecticut College

Citing Sources

ASA Style Guide

For authors who are preparing manuscripts for publication in American Sociological Association journals.

APA Style

For authors who are preparing manuscripts for publicationin American Psychological Asssociation journals.

Columbia University: Citing Electronic Resources

MLA-style Citations of Electronic Sources

How to cite online resources: (APA)

Citing Electronic Resources

MLA Formatting and Style Guide

Sponsored by the Owl at Purdue

Theses and Dissertations

Open Thesis

This free database has features such as saved searches, alerts, and portfolios to organize documents. Of course, you can pay for Proquest or use NDLTD, but this is the only free site with all these features. It also has some full text that those sites may not have.

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