ELECTRONIC BOOKS

 

There are many books available for free on the Internet, especially books that are in the public domain.

 The Bible Gateway offers searchable access in many translations.

Two major sources of free books are Project Gutenberg and Bartleby.com.
Google Print offers limited access to current books and complete access to digitized versions of many out-of-print books held by major academic libraries.
A good clearinghouse for online books is the Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania.
    

ARTICLES

Many articles are available for free use online as part of the Open Access Initiative.  The Directory of Open Access Repositories links to those centers that provide access to open-access journals and articles.

The Directory of Open Access Journals has a searchable listing of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Arizona State provides a directory of Open Access Journals in Education.

Nevada-Reno provides an index by subject of Free Electronic Journals.

   

 RESEARCH


When citing sources for papers, the most common styles are Modern Language Association and American Psychological Association.  There are several online guides to both, as well as paper versions held in the Library.  Consult your professor for what style is required.

The Internet is a valuable research tool.  However, most of the time it should be seen as a starting point to find materials and not as a major source.  World Wide Web sources such as Wikipedia generally should not be used as sources.