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Reading & Reference
- Local Newspapers
- On-line Magazines
- U.S. and International News
- Reference (dictionaries, concordances, translators, etc.)
- On-line Libraries and Bookstores
- OSU Barometer
- The Barometer is the daily newspaper of Oregon State University. Check out the OSU Campus Calendar and the Sports Information pages!
- GT Connect
- "GT" stands for Gazette-Times. This is the online version of the daily newspaper published in Corvallis, Oregon.
- Oregonian Live
- This is the on-line version of Oregon's (Portland) largest daily newspaper.
On-line Magazines
- The Nation Digital Edition
- Business Week
- Time
- Life
- The Economist
- The Atlantic Monthly
- The New Republic
- Welcome to PoliticsUSA
- Welcome to SALON
- Harper's Home Page
- Welcome to Science Online
- The Economist search page
- Electronic Newsstand
- This site helps you find electronic magazines. You can search by title or use the index categories.
- English Outlook
- Education USA brings you this on-line magazine written especially for students studying English as a foreign language.
- National and International News Page (OSU Website)
- There are lots of links here to major U.S. and international news services and periodicals.
- Links to Foreign Newspapers
- You may be able to find your local newspaper here. However, the computer you're using may not be able to show non-Western characters without special additional software.
- Electronic Guide to Newspapers
- The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
- Los Angeles Times Web Site
- WashingtonPost.com: Search Page
- The New York Times
- The Christian Science Monitor
- The Chicago Tribune
- USA Today
Reference
- Rhyming dictionary
- Oxford Text Archive Home Page
- A Web of On-line Dictionaries
- This site provides links to on-line dictioniaries for many languages.
- Hypertext Webster Interface
- WWWebster On-line Dictionary
- WWWebster On-line Thesaurus
- Roget's On-line Thesaurus
- Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
- Roget's Thesaurus (full hypertext version)
- The Web Concordances
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
- Research-It!
- This site does lots of things! It has several kinds of dictionaries (including one for pronunciation), a thesaurus, a translator, a currency converter, an acronym "decoder" and much more.
- AltaVista Translation Service
- This site provides free translation of web pages or text from English to French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian-- or vice versa. The translations are far from perfect; sometimes they're quite laughable--especially when idioms are involved. However, this service can provide a usable starting point for translating documents.
- Desk Reference Tools (Northwestern University)
- Need a zip code? and Area code? How about a directory of acronyms? It's all here and more!
- Penn Library Reference Shelf (University of Pennsylvania)
- Very handy! Lots of links to all kinds of useful information.
- Britannica On-line
- The on-line version of the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica. Use the search function to find information about your topic. Britannica On-line also provides links to websites relevant to your topic. Extremely useful, but you'll need a password. Try accessing Britannica Online through the OSU Valley Library Electronic Reference Center.
- Valley Library Electronic Reference Center
- Here's a great place to start your research project. There are links to OASIS (the OSU Valley Library online catalog), various article databases (including Encyclopedia Britannica Online) electronic journals, Oregon newspapers, and many other very useful databases and other resources.
- On-line Libraries and Bookstores
- OBS BookFinder Service
- Amazon.com Books! Earth's Biggest Bookstore
- The Internet Public Library
- The On-line Books Page
Created by John Whitney. Last updated 7 June, 2002 by Deborah Healey. For more information, contact Donna Shaw, donna.shaw@orst.edu.