Internet Resources

There are many good Internet sites that are useful to the research process.  Included here are free Web sites that we have found useful.  To report problems with broken links, please send an email message to library@muskegoncc.edu 

Searchable databases 

• Ingenta formerly Carl UnCover. Search through thousands of journals for free. Copies of articles may be faxed for a fee.  
• MagPortal.com a searchable database of fulltext magazine articles.    
• OAIster search for scholarly digital resources from nearly 300 institutions.
• JAKE Searchable database of periodicals. Use this to find out where a magazine or journal is indexed. Also includes information about periodicals' fulltext availability.  
• PubList Searchable database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals.
• Movie Review Query Engine A searchable database of over 26,000 movie titles. Reviews appear in magazines, newspapers, and other online sources.
• PubMed Medical Database provided by the National Library of Medicine. Includes MEDLINE and other resources.
• Thesaurus of Geographic Names from the Getty Information Institute.

Encyclopedias

• World Book Online contains the World Book Encyclopedia. The site also includes a dictionary, an atlas and information about current events and news headlines.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica 
• Columbia Encyclopedia 

Book Databases (Some also include videos and compact discs.)

• Barnes and Noble This site includes new books as well as over 6 million used and/or rare books.
• Chegg for buying and selling textbooks.
• Digital Book Index is a large index to the many full text books located online. Included in the index are books from netLibrary, Library of Congress eTexts, and many universities.
• Best Book Buys search through 28 book stores to find the best prices.
• AddALL Search online bookstores for new or used books. Use to compare prices.
• ISBN.NU An ISBN search to compare prices from online bookstores.
• Schuler Books with reviews.
• Amazon Books Large listing of currently available books.
• Advanced Book Exchange Find out-of-print, rare and antiquarian books. Searchable database of bookstores' inventories.
• Bibliocity Database of rare and collectible books.
• ALibris "The Ultimate Source for Out-of-Print & Rare Books".
• MX Bookfinder Will locate new or used books by searching through several different databases including Advanced Book Exchange, Bibliocity, Interloc, Antiqbook, Powell's Books, and Amazon.com.
• What's Next provided by Kent District Library. Use this site to determine the order of (fictional) books in series. Searchable by author, title of book, or title of series.
• Library Booksales Search the booksales of libraries in the United States.
• Internet Book Shop from the United Kingdom.    

 People/Biographical

• A&E Biographies over 20,000 searchable biographies.
• WhoWhatWhen Interactive Historical Timelines use for finding people, dates, and historical events.
• Family Search Genealogy database provided by the LDS Church in Utah.
• Social Security Death Index provided by Rootsweb. Includes reported deaths to the Social Security Administration from 1962 to present.
• Michigan Cemetery Index is a directory of cemeteries in Michigan.  
• Switchboard directory is a database of United States telephone books.  Includes yellow & white pages.

Governmental, city, state and local information

Governmental Search Engines

• USA.Gov the U.S. Government's Official Web Portal.
• GovENGINE.com Government search engine for local, state and federal governments.
• SearchGov Government search engine.
• U. S. Blue Pages is a government telephone directory.
• U.S. Federal Government Information 

Local Government/Local Information

• Michigan Votes Voter Information Center Find your polling location, view your sample ballot, and other information
• City of Muskegon 
• City of Muskegon Heights 
• City of Norton Shores 
• Michigan Senate find your senator by district, name, or by your address.
• Michigan Legislature find your legislator by district, county, or your zip code.
• County of Muskegon 
• Muskegon County Museum contains local history information. Includes essays written by Tom Carlson about businesses, buildings, landmarks, people and events in Muskegon's history such as Continental Motors, the Occidental Hotel, and the Muskegon Lassies.
• Ottawa County 
• West Michigan Strategic Alliance is comprised of governmental units, businesses, institutions and private citizens. Their goal is to assist in the optimal growth of West Michigan. Their initial emphasis is on the area of the triangle formed by Grand Rapids, Muskegon and Holland.
• IHelp: West Michigan Service Finder may be used to find area agencies that provide educational, mental health, social, criminal justice, and health care services.
• Michigan Hometown Locator includes information about Michigan physical, cultural and historical features.

State of Michigan

• State of Michigan 
• Michigan Senate find your senator by district, name, or by your address.
• Michigan Legislature find your legislator by district, county, or your zip code.
• Michigan Supreme Court Decisions 
• Michigan Compiled Laws
• Publius Voter Information Center provided by the Michigan Secretary of State. Registered voters may enter their name to find out where they are registered to vote, what voting equipment is used, and view the ballot and election calendar.
• Michigan Tax Forms 
• Michigan Economic Development Corporation provides a wealth of information about Michigan. The site includes maps, population statistics, county profiles, business and labor statistics, and much more.
• MultiMag Michigan A comprehensive directory of information about Michigan. Includes cities, counties, townships, events, weather, and other topics of interest.
• Michigan Hometown Locator includes information about Michigan physical, cultural and historical features.

United States Government

• USA.Gov the U.S. Government's Official Web Portal.
• FedForms Federal forms for the public from 500 U.S. Government offices.
• Locate your Representative from the U.S. House of Representatives. For some Representatives, you may also send a message.
• IRS Tax Forms 
• Thomas Congressional Information 
• U.S. Code 
• The U.S. Supreme Court 
•  The U.S. Supreme Court blog
• U.S. Courts This site contains links to federal courts and judicial systems.
• Core Documents of US Democracy from the Government Printing Office. Includes current and historical legislative and legal, regulatory, presidential, demographic, and economic documents..
• U. S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
• U. S. Peace Corps 
• Factfinder Census Information 
• American Community Survey US Census Bureau
• Historical Census Data covering 1790 through 1960.
• Statistical Abstract of the United States 
• The White House 
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office searchable database.
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Information

Miscellaneous City, State and U.S. Information

• City Search allows users to enter a zip code and find information about events, lodging, entertainment, job postings, and much more.
• Compare demographics of cities at Moving.Com.
• SuperTravelNet contains information about cities, road maps, events and more.  Also covers non-U.S. countries. 
• U.S. Hometown Locator includes information about U.S. physical, cultural and historical features.

Business/Commercial Information

• PR Newswire Business and financial news including stock quotes.
• CNN Financial News 
• Yahoo's Stock Quotes and Financial Data.
• Big Charts Locate both historical stock quotes and current stock quotes from the early 1980s to present.
• Economic Statistics Briefing Room provided by the U.S. government.
• CompanyLink Information on companies. Includes news items, financial data.
• Hoover's Online
• Companies Online 
• Thomas Register 
• MiBiz Michigan business information with searchable archives.
• Froogle search engine provided by Google. Use to search for merchandise available online.
• Kelley Blue Book or Edmunds Use to find information on new and used cars.  Also, MotorTrend contains information on new and used cars with local and regional information.
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Information 
• Searchable SIC Manual (1987)
• Business, Economics and Labor Menu from the Michigan Electronic Library.
• GuideStar search for nonprofit organizations.

  Subject Searches and Subject Catalogs

• Searching Tips

  • Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web. Search Engine Watch includes an overview of the major search engines, search engine reviews and tutorials on how to use search engines.

Metasearch Engines and Collections of Search Sites

• Langenberg.com provides a search interface to many search engines and web page translators.  
• Metacrawler metasearch that searches through google, bing, yahoo, etc...
• IxQuick Claims to be the world's most powerful search engine. Searches are from 14 of the top search engines including AOL, Altavista, EuroSeek, Excite, Fast Search, GoTo, Hotbot, Infoseek, LookSmart, MSN, NBCi, Webcrawler, Yahoo and xRefer
• Vivisimo A metasearch tool with results folders. Has the ability to limit a search to news sources, Web search engine sites, or other online sources.
• SurfWax includes a variety of search engines and databases.
• Dogpile A multi-engine searching tool.
• Collection of WWW search engines A collection of search programs. These include files, people and web documents.
• SavvySearch Comprehensive search using several search engines.
• Go2Net (MetaCrawler) Search through Open Text, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite, Inktomi, Alta Vista, Yahoo, and Galaxy all at once.
• Search Engines Worldwide A large collection of search engines from many countries.
• WebCrawler Keyword search of the Web.
• ZapMeta In addition to grouping results into related folders, this metasearch engine arranges results in order by domain, by relevance, by title, by search engine, or by popularity.    

  Search Engines 

• A9.com a comprehensive search engine that saves users' searches. Linked with Amazon, it also searches through the full text of thousands of books.
• All The Web A search engine with advanced features. Also called Fast Search, has a very large database.
• Alta Vista Large and flexible search program for the Web. Allows for boolean and proximity searching.
• Excite search Keyword search of the Web.
• Google Keyword search of the Web. Maintains a cached copy of Web pages.
• Google Scholar Search for scholarly materials.
• Google Groups Keyword search of Usenet newsgroups.
• Google Blog Search searches only through blogs.
• Hotbot Large search database.
• Infoseek Keyword search of the Web.
• Microsoft's Live search. 
• LookSmart Keyword search of the Web.
• Lycos Keyword search of the Web. 
• WolframAlpha Search for answers to factual questions.

   

  Other Libraries and Library Issues 

  • Michigan Community College Libraries information and home page
  • Faxon Institute under the auspices of the Faxon Company. Contains information on the dissemination of scholarly information.
  • Association of American Publishers, Inc.
  • Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
  • Library Stuff maintained by law librarian, Steven Cohen. Provides information on current events in librarianship.
  • Library Information from the United Kingdom. Good site with lots of library information.
  • WLN Organization providing information and services to libraries.
  • Library Web Manager's Reference Center
  • LibrarySpot Resources for Librarians. 

    Cataloging Information Area

   Library Societies, Associations and Services

   

  •  Michigan Libraries (All)
  • Lakeland Library System Libraries include the County Library systems of Muskegon, Ottawa, Newaygo, Kent, Allegan, Barry, Gratiot, Ionia, Mecosta and Montcalm.
  • Grand Valley State University
  • Western Michigan University Library online catalog. Includes regional libraries.
  • Michigan State University Library
  • Ferris State University
  • University of Michigan Library
  • Library of Michigan Our state library in Lansing.
  • Hackley Public Library Now includes their online catalog.
  • State Libraries of the United States.
  • Libweb is a portal to library servers from over 100 countries.
  • LibDex The Library Index. Consists of library homepages, web-based OPACs, and library e-commerce affiliate links.
  • Hytelnet Libraries with Telnet interfaces world wide.
  • Library of Congress
  • Internet Public Library at UM
  • Index Morganagus a large, searchable index to library-oriented periodicals.
  • Ariadne
  • Biblio Tech Review from the UK.
  • Current Cites
  • Database Searchable archives. For current issues, see EContent.
  • D-Lib Magazine The Magazine of Digital Library Research
  • EContent Formerly Database
  • Information Research from the University of Sheffield.
  • Integrated Library System Reports
  • The Journal of Internet Cataloging
  • Library Hi Tech
  • Library Journal Digital
  • Library Quarterly (Table of contents only.)
  • LIBRES Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal
  • MCJournal The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship
  • Online
  • Provenance The Web Magazine for Information Professionals
  • PACS Review Public Access Computer Systems Review
  • Katherine Sharp Review
  • Wilson E-Connection The print version of Wilson Library Bulletin ceased publication in 1995. This site contains the book reviews and library news that were part of that print publication.
  • Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries (HAL)
  • Michigan Library Association
  • Michigan Library Directory
  • Michigan Library Consortium (MLC)
  • Statewide library Conferences & Workshops.
  • Michigan eLibrary (MeL) Formerly known as Michigan Electronic Library. Provided by the State of Michigan under the auspices of the AccessMichigan program.
  • AccessMichigan a digital library project made possible by several libraries and library associations.
  • SIRSI, Inc. Provider of our integrated library system.
  • American Library Association (ALA)
  • Council on Library and Information Resources
  • Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) searchable database with coverage from last 40 years.
  • Librarians and Information Science provided by Suite101. A good source for current information relating to the library profession.
  • LibraryHQ Resources for Wired Librarians. A site rich in Internet information for Librarians. It includes a good subject search engine for Internet resources.
  • WebJunction provided by OCLC and other organizations to act as an information source for libraries. Started with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
  • LibDex The Library Index. Consists of library homepages, web-based OPACs, and library e-commerce affiliate links.
  • INFO CONNECT Large listing of societies, services, and sites useful to Librarians available on the Internet.
  • OCLC Online Computer Library Center

Resources for Our Faculty and Administrators

• When our library is closed or if you are off campus, use Research Help Now to get assistance via live chat with a Michigan community college librarian.
• Michigan Department of Education 
• United States Department of Education 
• National Center for Education Statistics 
• Measuring Up: The State-by-State Report Card for Higher Education from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
• American Council on Education 
• The Chronicle of Higher Education Headlines, summaries, and brief articles from current issues and browsable archives. A password is needed to read the full text of articles and to search the archives. See MCC reference librarian.
• American Association for Higher Education Their site includes the AAHE Bulletin.
• Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Includes information from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) which is "The Nation's Oldest and Largest Empirical Study of Higher Education".
• ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges 
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education 
• American Association of Community Colleges Site includes weekly news, AACC publications, and information regarding programs, services and conferences.
• National Survey of Student Engagement 
• Michigan Community College Association 
• Michigan Education Association 
• Michigan Community College Virtual Learning Collaborative 
• Center for Academic Transformation from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute headed by Dr. Carol A. Twigg.
• National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) Contains the NITLE News.
• The Diversity Web an interactive resource hub for higher education
• The Center for Academic Integrity sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
• National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development 
• Meeting Generation NeXt research by Dr. Mark Taylor. Dr. Taylor was a guest speaker for Fall 2004 faculty seminar at MCC.
• Learning with Style presented by Tom Donahue at January, 2005 faculty seminar at MCC.
• Fall, 2007 Faculty Seminar presenter Christi Segal showed this site at the beginning of her presentation.
• National Academy Press Reading Room contains full text of its publications.
• League for Innovation in the Community College

• Classroom Assessment Techniques

  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
  • Buros Assessment and Evaluation Test Locator  from the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
  • Student Assessment from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Includes a section on designing test questions.
  • Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Classroom Assessment Techniques from Southern Illinois University
  • Shakespeare from Costume Resources, includes many links to information on Shakespeare.  

• Grant and Proposal Writing

  • Developing and Writing Grant Proposals from the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.
  • The Foundation Center an online version of the CD-ROM available in the library.
  • National Science Foundation publications for grantseekers.
  • Grants and Contracts from the United States Department of Education.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities. 
  • Grants & Programs from The NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education.
  • The Art of Grantsmanship by Jacob Kraicer.
  • NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts from the National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research 

•  Internet Information 

• Hendrik Meijer Library has a special Faculty Book Collection which contains books to support excellence in teaching.
• Index of Education Resources from the Michigan Electronic Library.  
• Living Internet informational site on the history of the Internet as well as current information.
• Evaluating World Wide Web Resources This site contains valuable information on assessing the authority, accuracy, objectivity, coverage and currency of Web resources.
• Citing Internet resources when writing research papers. Purdue O.W.L. provides MLA and APA information
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is "the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions..."
• World Wide Web Consortium The W3C was founded to promote effective use of the Internet. The site contains a wealth of information about Internet activities and protocols.
• American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 
• Virus Information Library provided by McAfee Security.
• Computer Incident Advisory Capability from the Department of Energy. Use this site to check for Internet hoaxes such as viruses, chain letters, etc.
• Urban Legends This site contains information on email hoaxes and chain mail.
• Snopes.com is a good place to check the truth of email legends.
• Internet Crime Complaint Center provided by the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center and the Bureau of Justice Assistance. 
• First Monday Peer reviewed Internet journal.
• Internic 
• The Elephant's Toolbox includes a Domain Name Translator and additional Internet tools provided by Cotse.
• Domain Name Translator Will give IP address from domain name, or will give domain name from IP address.
• Bandwidth speed test Test your Internet line speed.
• Connect Michigan A non-profit organization detailing broadband access throughout Michigan.
• Internet Resources Newsletter 
• CERT Computer Emergency Response Team. Deals with security issues regarding the Internet.
• The Internet Public Library at the University of Michigan contains links to over books, magazines and  newspapers from around the world.
• ABYZ News Links contains links to over 16,200 newspapers and other news sources from around the world.
• News from the New York Times and the Associated Press. 
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• CNN News
• USA Today
• BBC News
• Voice of America US and world events available in 50 different languages.
• Muskegon Chronicle
• WOOD TV NBC Grand Rapids
• WXMI TV FOX Grand Rapids
• WZZM TV ABC Grand Rapids 

 Electronic Journals, News, Full Text Books

Journals, Discussion groups, news, fulltext books

• Detroit Free Press searchable archives from 1982. MCC participates in the AccessMichigan Project which makes the full text of these archives free to its members. For current news, go directly to the Detroit Free Press site.
• New York Times fulltext from the last year (via InfoTrac).
• ProQuest is used to access the New York Times newspaper from 1999 to present. See the reference librarian for the required account name and password.
• Detroit News from 1999 to present. See the reference librarian for the required login and password information.
• Television and Radio Stations listing from the Michigan Electronic Library.
• MagPortal.com a searchable database of fulltext magazine articles.
• Journals, Magazines and Newsletters on the Web. Listing compiled by librarians at the University of North Carolina.
• Electronic Magazines and Journals from the Internet Public Library at the University of Michigan. Includes over 2,100 publications.

• Books

  • NetLibrary Over 8,000 fulltext books available for free download by Michigan residents.
  • Digital Book Index is a large index to the many full text books located online. Included in the index are books from netLibrary, Library of Congress eTexts, and many universities.
  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts from Berkeley. Contains English literature, American literature and Western Philosophy. The full text of the books are searchable and may be downloaded in PDF.
  • Online Books listing put together at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Project Gutenberg Large database of full text books.
  • Making of America archives at the University of Michigan. Contains scanned full text of books and periodicals from the 19th century.
  • National Academy Press Reading Room contains the full text of many of its books.  
  • Electronic Book Listing provided by the Internet Public Library.
  • Listing of EBook databases listing from GVSU.
• Newsgroups

E-mail Services

• Universities

  • Grand Valley State University Email Accounts
  • Michigan State University
• Free Commercial Services
  • Free Email Providers Guide  
    • AltaVista Email 
    • Excite Email 
    • HotMail 
    • Lycos' MailCity 
    • Mail.Com (Choose a personal domain name)
    • Net@ddress 
    • RocketMail 
    • Yahoo Email
• Librarian's Toolbox a collection of the most used resources on the OCLC Website.

        

  • MSN Web Search provided by Microsoft. 

  • Scirus search engine for scientific information only.

  • Starting Point Search engine and subject catalog.

  • Teoma Results are grouped and users may refine their search or look through directories which contain their search terms.
  • WiseNut This search engine also groups results into related folders.

  • Search for specific items

  • Images and Video
    • Finding Images on the Web provided by Boston University Libraries.
    • AltaVista Photo Finder 
    • Google Image Search 
    • Yahoo Image Search 
    • WebSeek at Columbia University
    • CalPhotos from the Berkeley Digital Library Project. Includes nearly 35,000 images of plants, animals, people, and landscapes. These are mostly from California, but many other states are included.
    • Digital Collections from the University of Washington Libraries. This searchable site offers nearly 40 different image collections from the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and other areas.
    • UPI News Pictures contains over 100,000 pictures from the news. They currently are adding about 1,200 new images each month.
  • Sounds
    • Use FindSounds to search for brief sound effects, musical instrument samples, birds, animals, and a variety of everyday sounds.
  • News
    • Google News taken from CNN, international newspapers, Associated Press, and other news sources.
    • TVEyes a searchable archive of news clips from CNN, Fox, MSNBC and others. The database is created by voice recognition.

  • Finding People

    • Switchboard A telephone book for the U.S. Use to find residential and business telephone numbers and addresses. Also will retrieve maps and directions.
    • Free telephone directory service online or by calling 1-800-FREE-411.
    • WhoWhere from Lycos.
    • Yahoo People Search 
    • Family Search Genealogy Database provided by the LDS Church in Utah.
    • ZoomInfo

  • Quick Facts and Statistical Information

    • Fast Facts Includes almanacs, factbooks, statistical reports, and other reference tools.
    • Reference Desk from the Michigan Electronic Library (MEL).